grayscale
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]grayscale (countable and uncountable, plural grayscales)
- (photography) A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times.
- (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
[edit]grayscale (not comparable)
- (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.
Synonyms
[edit]- black and white (“in shades of gray”)
- monochrome
Antonyms
[edit]- black and white (“easily divided into two groups”)
Translations
[edit]giving colour in shades of gray
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Verb
[edit]grayscale (third-person singular simple present grayscales, present participle grayscaling, simple past and past participle grayscaled)
- (transitive) To convert to grayscale.