Used in a Sentence

grayscale

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for grayscale.

Editorial note

It's like saying 0 is white and 1 is black, but when a grayscale is not available, 0.5 is black.

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech3

Quick take

(imaging) The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of grayscale gathered in one view.

noun

(imaging) The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray.

verb

(transitive) To convert to grayscale.

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for grayscale.

noun

(imaging) The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray.

verb

(transitive) To convert to grayscale.

noun

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

adjective

(imaging) Black and white, representing color with shades of gray.

Example sentences

1

It's like saying 0 is white and 1 is black, but when a grayscale is not available, 0.5 is black.

2

The best workaround is to enable grayscale sub-pixel rendering in chrome://flags but fonts are still fuzzy.

3

It seems pretty kitsch and not that useful, it is effectively grayscale with an additive color overlay of only one color.

4

Convert the image to a 64px square low-depth grayscale (4b?) and most of them should look more or less the same to PHash.

5

As a related tip, on iOS you can have a home button triple-press shortcut which you can assign inverted colors or grayscale, or both.

6

Also Windows 8 uses subpixel positioned grayscale, rather than subpixel positioned ClearType.

7

We couldn't use color or even grayscale, so black and white stripes were the only option to reveal the glories of the Mandelbrot set.

8

In one comment, he thought that color-blind people saw in grayscale.

9

This has also made me appreciative of authors who put in the effort to make sure that their graphs and diagrams reduce well to grayscale.

10

And then it only works on grayscale images.

11

My current settings are: Medium and Grayscale respectively.

12

Note that I only played a small portion of the palm-game-o-sphere, and I was limited to those that would run on my low-end grayscale Visor.

Quote examples

1

I expected the grayscale pixels to be drawn with some kind of grayscale characters (like "-=#$"), but judging from the screenshots those are actual graphics.

2

I once won a code golf "popularity contest" competition that was about dithering a grayscale image.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use grayscale in a sentence?

It's like saying 0 is white and 1 is black, but when a grayscale is not available, 0.5 is black.

What does grayscale mean?

(imaging) The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray.

What part of speech is grayscale?

grayscale is commonly used as noun, verb, adjective.