halftone

Meanings

1. Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
2. A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
3. An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.

1. To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.

Etymology

From half- + tone.