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grayscale

or gray scale

[ grey-skeyl ]

noun

  1. a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grayscale1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences

It recalls a past era, when more films were presented in grayscale — though films like this may be evidence it’s coming back, it’s a generation of filmmaking that’s gone.

From Vox

Wind Down, Bedtime Mode’s precursor, had a Night Light option that could be used in tandem with, or instead of, the grayscale mode.

It’s a workaround I figured out on my own, a way to navigate a world not designed for grayscale peepers like mine.

Males, for example, have a range of coat colorings from a dramatic grayscale to a kaleidoscope of turquoise and tangerine with ruddied swirls.

Will and I stared at the grayscale brain template, an aggregate of statistics from all our subjects, which was completely devoid of color—no hot spots, no clusters to use as future regions of interest.

The many images of the original are inline here as grayscale graphics in PNG format, scaled to 480 or 512 pixels width.

The numerous figures from the original are reproduced here as 16-level grayscale images in .

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