Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quadtone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: quad-tone
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An interval of four whole tones.

noun

A picture printed in four shades.

Example Sentences

"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."
"When using tritones or quadtones (in which three colours are blended together) all the secondary colours are mixed together."
"The two colours need not be black and grey; computer duotones can be created from a greyscale original in any two colours; tritones use three inks and quadtones four."

Etymology

From quad- + tone.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: quad

Inflected Forms

quadtones (plural)

Questions

What does quadtone mean?: An interval of four whole tones.
Where does quadtone come from?: From quad- + tone.

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