Grayscale

Quick meaning: Grayscale is a noun meaning (photography) A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times.

Meaning

(photography) A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times.

More Meanings

1. (imaging) The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
2. (imaging) Black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
3. (transitive) To convert to grayscale.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• grayscales
• gray-scale
• gray scale
• grayscaling
• grayscaled

Synonyms for grayscale

Depending on context, synonyms include black and white, monochrome.

Antonyms for grayscale

Common opposites include black and white.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include greyscale, chromotype, rotograph, colortype, photogravure, sightening.

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