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grayscale

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Etymology

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From gray +‎ scale.

Noun

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grayscale (countable and uncountable, plural grayscales)

  1. (photography) A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times.
  2. (imaging) The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
    • 2010, Joe Habraken, Microsoft Office 2010 in Depth:
      You can view your presentation in grayscale or black-and-white and then customize how the various colors are translated to grayscale or black-and-white.

Adjective

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grayscale (not comparable)

  1. (imaging) Black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
    • 2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine[1]:
      Tetris’s graphics were simple enough to work on the Game Boy’s small gray-scale screen; its motion was slow enough not to blur; its action was a repetitive, storyless puzzle that could be picked up, with no loss of potency, at any moment, in any situation.

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Verb

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grayscale (third-person singular simple present grayscales, present participle grayscaling, simple past and past participle grayscaled)

  1. (transitive) To convert to grayscale.

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