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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesbitonal
Pronunciation / Transliteration: bi-tonal
"L'image a été convertie en format bitonal pour l'impression."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Consisting of or utilizing two distinct tones, shades, or colors, typically black and white in digital imaging.
"The document scanner was configured to save the historical manuscripts in bitonal mode to reduce file size." - 2
In music, involving or combining two different keys or tonal centers simultaneously.
"The avant-garde composition featured a striking bitonal texture, pitting the violins in C major against the cellos in F-sharp major."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Formed in English by combining the Latin prefix 'bi-' (meaning two or double) with the adjective 'tonal', derived from 'tone' (ultimately from Greek 'tonos', meaning stretching or pitch). Emerging in the mid-20th century, the term initially found application in music theory to describe music utilizing two tonalities simultaneously, before expanding into digital imaging and computer graphics to describe images composed of only two distinct tones or colors.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Bitonal" is said worldwide
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bitonal
Transliteration: bi-tonal
"L'image a été convertie en format bitonal pour l'impression."
bitonal
Transliteration: bi-tonal
"Das Dokument wurde in einer bitonalen Darstellung eingescannt."
bitonale
Transliteration: bi-tonale
"La scansione è stata eseguita in modalità bitonale."
bitono
Transliteration: bi-tono
"El gráfico se presenta en un formato bitonal."
bitonal
Transliteration: bi-tonal
"A imagem digitalizada está no formato bitonal."
द्वि-वर्णीय
Transliteration: dvi-varniya
"दस्तावेज़ को द्वि-वर्णीय रूप में स्कैन किया गया था।"
双色调的
Transliteration: shuāng sè diào de
"扫描仪设置为双色调模式。"
이중톤의
Transliteration: ijungton-ui
"이미지가 이중톤 형식으로 저장되었습니다."
2階調の
Transliteration: ni-kaichō no
"文書は2階調モードでスキャンされました。"
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