Half tone

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n.	1.	(Fine Arts) An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
	2.	(Music) A half step.
	3.	A print obtained by the half-tone photo-engraving process.
	4.	the etched plate used to reproduce a half-tone illustration.

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