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quadtone

quadtone noun: an interval of four whole tones.

Noun

quadtone (plural quadtones)

  1. An interval of four whole tones.
  2. A picture printed in four shades.
    • In Photoshop’s Duotone mode you can create monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones—grayscale images to which you add one, two, three, or four colors.1995, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, “Converting from One Mode to Another”, in Fundamental Photoshop, 2nd edition, Osborne McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 380
    • When using tritones or quadtones (in which three colours are blended together) all the secondary colours are mixed together.2003, Duncan Evans, “Duotones and Tritones”, in A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Portrait Photography, AVA Publishing SA, →ISBN, page 115

Forms of quadtone

pluralquadtones

Origin of quadtone

From quad- + tone.

Questions about quadtone

What does quadtone mean?
Quadtone means an interval of four whole tones.
What part of speech is quadtone?
Quadtone is a noun.
What is the plural of quadtone?
The plural of quadtone is quadtones.

Words near quadtone in the dictionary

  1. quadrupoles
  2. quads
  3. quads out
  4. quadsuit
  5. quadsuits
  6. quadtone
  7. quadtones
  8. quadtree
  9. quadtrees
  10. quadword
  11. quadwords

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