Definition of Grayscale

1. Noun. (photography) A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times. ¹

2. Adjective. (''imaging'') black and white, representing color with shades of gray. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To convert to grayscale. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grayscale

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grayscale

grayline
grayling
graylings
graylist
graylisted
graylisting
graylists
grayly
graymail
graymails
grayness
graynesses
grayout
grayouts
grays
grayscale (current term)
grayscaled
grayscales
grayscaling
grayslick
graystone
graystones
graywacke
graywackes
graywater
graywaters
grazable
graze
grazeable
grazed

Literary usage of Grayscale

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access by Steven T. Puglia, Jeffrey Reed, Erin Rhodes (2005)
"Many textual documents do not have significant color information and grayscale images will be smaller to store compared to color image files. ..."

2. Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety: Proceedings of the First International edited by T. J. Casadevall (1995)
"An inverted grayscale has been applied to the images in figure 4 so that ... AH images are shown with an inverted grayscale, so that cold objects are bright ..."

3. Engineering Geology Applied to the Design and Operation of Underground Coal by C. Richard Dunrud (2000)
"Reflection and emission spectra of different types of vegetation may show different grayscale intensities C. Manipulation of the gray scale of ..."

4. SAS 9.1.3 [sic.] Companion for Z/OS. by SAS Institute, SAS Publishing (2004)
"... One of PostScript PostScript grayscale PostScript grayscale PostScript Color PostScript Color PostScript Duplex PostScript Duplex PostScript PostScript ..."

5. SAS 9.1 Output Delivery System: User's Guide by SAS Institute (2004)
"GRAY creates grayscale output for both text and graphics. Alias: GREY MONO creates monochromatic output for both text and graphics. ..."

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