posterize

English

Etymology

poster +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊstəɹaɪz/

• Audio (General Australian):

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A posterized photograph, reduced to 256 colors.

Verb

posterize (third-person singular simple present posterizes, present participle posterizing, simple past and past participle posterized)

1. To reduce the number of colors in an image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
2. (basketball, slang) To score a slam dunk by leaping over another player.

Related terms

• posterization

Translations

act or process of posterizing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色調分離／色调分离 (sèdiàofēnlí)

• Portuguese: posterizar

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• poetizers