Meaning of tritone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An interval of three whole tones.
2. A picture printed in three shades.

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: augmented fourth, diminished fifth”

“The tritone has a pitch ratio close to 17:12.”

“The mini-epic “Seasons in the Abyss,” with its ringing tritone interval at the beginning, its extended solos, its medium tempo, was as close as Slayer got to a groove.”

“In Photoshop’s Duotone mode you can create monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones—grayscale images to which you add one, two, three, or four colors.”

“When using tritones or quadtones (in which three colours are blended together) all the secondary colours are mixed together.”

“The two colours need not be black and grey; computer duotones can be created from a greyscale original in any two colours; tritones use three inks and quadtones four.”

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