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half tone

noun Music.

semitone.

Origin of half tone

First recorded in 1645–55

Words nearby half tone

half term, half the battle, half tide, half tiger, half title, half tone, half twist, half volley, half wellington, half-, half-a-crown

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Illustrated with 27 full-page and 87 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown.

The Later Cave-Men |Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
Half-tone from pencil sketch slightly strengthened with pen and ink.

A Handbook of Illustration |A. Horsley Hinton
If applied to the entire surface, the result is very like a half-tone process block in appearance.

A Handbook of Illustration |A. Horsley Hinton
Illustrated with nearly 100 Photogravure Plates and a number of Drawings in half-tone.

Chatto & Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literature, Sept. 1905 |Various

The "casting" so obtained is built up with metal and then mounted on wood in the same way as a zinco or a half-tone.

The Essentials of Illustration |T. G. (Thomas George) Hill