grayscale

plural grayscales · alternative greyscale · alternative gray-scale · alternative grey-scale · alternative gray scale · alternative grey scale

1. countableuncountableartsA printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times.
2. countableuncountableimagingThe use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray.

   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.

   2010, Joe Habraken, Microsoft Office 2010 in Depth

alternative greyscale · alternative gray-scale · alternative grey-scale · alternative gray scale · alternative grey scale

1. not comparableimagingBlack and white, representing color with shades of gray.

   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.

   2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine

   Synonyms: black and white, monochrome

present singular third person grayscales · participle present grayscaling · participle past grayscaled · past grayscaled · alternative greyscale · alternative gray-scale · alternative grey-scale · alternative gray scale · alternative grey scale

1. transitiveTo convert to grayscale.