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Halftone

An engraving used to print an illustration, such as in a book or magazine. This word is most common in publishing.

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Such a process of resolution improvement is called nonsubtractive dithering (ND), as the noise is not subtracted from the signal after quantization.

Correction of ADC errors by iterative method with dithering using dither with uniform distribution

This certainly can be described as dithering - at the long term cost to the future credibility of Birmingham as an aspiring international city

Letter: How it's gone beyond our Ken

At the corporation, meanwhile, the dithering bosses must fear the man they really wanted to keep may soon follow his foul-mouthed friend out the door.

The Journal: Thompson's dithering will cost BBC dear

I suggest Dithering Darling asks himself another question: How can I justify these rewards for failure when chatting over the parliamentary dispatch box?

It's time to move over, Darling ..

Ian Smith, chief executive of the Engineering Employers' Federation West Midlands, said: "It is time the dithering stopped and the Department of Transport released the funds for this project.

Fury as city's plea snubbed; STATION: Revamp misses out as Darling hands out billions

It is high time that the Government stopped dithering and abandoned its overcaution,'' Mr Kennedy says in his annual New Year's message.

Stop the dithering -- Kennedy

Robertson also hit out at Tory dithering over the appointment of a food safety officer for Scotland - a plan first put forward by Labour.

Tories slated over silence on killer bug

3 OAmarks(TM) while running the Office Automation benchmark tests including dithering, image rotation, and text processing.

PMC-Sierra's RM5261A 64-Bit MIPS-based RISC Processor Receives Outstanding Certified Benchmark Scores

Dithering Dave Cameron is being called a hypocrite.

CAM OFF IT, DAVE

If Dove and Rylance are presenting ``Measure'' as the Duke's education/initiation into the ways of governing, the dithering makes a certain amount of sense.

THIS AUTHENTIC 'MEASURE' MORE THAN MEASURES UP

Tim Yeo, shadow trade and industry secretary, said: ``The government must stop dithering and start deciding whether they want nuclear energy to play a significant part in providing Britain's electricity needs.

Firm in crisis talks

Perhaps Jack Cunningham's dithering over the ban on raw milk means that Ministers will do more listening and less nannying; especially where the solution to the problem is to make people aware of the risk but leave consumers to decide what to do," he said.