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scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography

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Usage examples (37)
  • We chose a gray-scale map in order to highlight more surface details.
  • The chromatic values are laid out in a gray-scale value, says the artist as he explains the disarray.
  • When you begin the game, you start with a bleak, gray-scale vision of a city, where cars stream through the dark streets.
  • So I have achieved some level of assimilation, if that is how it is defined, a gray-scale and not a black and white distinction.
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