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grey-scale

grey-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 grey-scale

What is grey-scale the alternative form of?
Grey-scale is the alternative form of grayscale.

Words near grey-scale in the dictionary

  1. grey-necked wood rails
  2. grey-out
  3. grey-outed
  4. grey-outing
  5. grey-outs
  6. grey-scale
  7. grey-sexual
  8. grey-tailed tattler
  9. grey-tailed tattlers
  10. grey-throated rail
  11. grey-throated rails

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grey-scale (page history and authors); grayscale (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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