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tone color

noun as in tonality

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These segments diverge in tone, color and movement from the muted palette and fixed compositions with which cinematographer Steve Cosens girds the biographical narrative.

His tone color on the piano can shift from vinegary to supple in seconds.

“From the jump, he was much, much more interested in directorial stuff — bigger-picture stuff, tone, color,” Berg says in an April call.

Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.”

The 16-inch screen features both True Tone color correction, which automatically tunes the temperature of your display based on your surroundings, and ProMotion, which offers an adaptive refresh rate of up to 120Hz.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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