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quadtones

quadtones is the plural of quadtone.

Meaning of quadtone

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

Questions about quadtones

What is quadtones the plural of?
Quadtones is the plural of quadtone.

Words near quadtones in the dictionary

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

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