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gray-scale

gray-scale is the alternative form of grayscale.

Meaning of grayscale

Adjective

grayscale (not comparable)

  1. (imaging) Black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
    • 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.2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine

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Questions about gray-scale

What is gray-scale the alternative form of?
Gray-scale is the alternative form of grayscale.

Words near gray-scale in the dictionary

  1. gray-necked bunting
  2. gray-out
  3. gray-outed
  4. gray-outing
  5. gray-outs
  6. gray-scale
  7. gray-sexual
  8. Grayan
  9. grayanotoxane
  10. grayanotoxanes
  11. grayanotoxin

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