Tone may refer to:
Color-related
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Tone (color theory), a mix of tint and shade, in painting and color theory
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Tone (color), the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a colour
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Toning (coin)
Toning on a coin is the change of colour brought about through oxidization, which forms a thin layer of tarnish on the metal's surface. Coin toning can vary in aesthetics, and thus can alternately add or detract from a coin's value. Coins with un ...
, colour change in coins
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Photographic print toning
In photography, toning is a method of altering the color of black-and-white photographs. In analog photography, it is a chemical process carried out on metal salt-based prints, such as silver prints, iron-based prints (cyanotype or Van Dyke b ...
, a process that changes the color of monochromatic film, e.g. ''sepia tone''
Sound and music
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Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information and to convey emph ...
, the pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages
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Tone (musical instrument) Tone and sound are terms used by musicians and related professions to refer to the audible characteristics of a player's sound. Tone is the product of all influences on what can be heard by the listener, including the characteristics of the instrum ...
, the audible characteristics of a musician's sound
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Musical tone, a sound characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity, and timbre
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Pure tone
Pure may refer to:
Computing
* A pure function
* A pure virtual function
* PureSystems, a family of computer systems introduced by IBM in 2012
* Pure Software, a company founded in 1991 by Reed Hastings to support the Purify tool
* Pure-FTPd, ...
, a tone with a sinusoidal waveform
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Reciting tone
In chant, a reciting tone (also called a recitation tone) can refer to either a repeated musical pitch or to the entire melodic formula for which that pitch is a structural note. In Gregorian chant, the first is also called tenor, dominant or tub ...
, such as Psalm tone and recitative, as in Gregorian chants
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Tonality
Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or triadic chord with the greatest stability is ca ...
, a system of music based on a key "center", or tonic
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Tone control
Tone control is a type of equalization used to make specific pitches or " frequencies" in an audio signal softer or louder. It allows a listener to adjust the tone of the sound produced by an audio system to their liking, for example to compens ...
, a (typically electronic) control for affecting frequency content of an audio signal
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Whole tone
In Western music theory, a major second (sometimes also called whole tone or a whole step) is a second spanning two semitones (). A second is a musical interval encompassing two adjacent staff positions (see Interval number for more det ...
, or major second, a commonly occurring musical interval
Musical genres, groups, and works
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Tone (DC band), a DC instrumental band formed in 1991
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''Tone'' (Jeff Ament album), a 2008 album by Jeff Ament
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''Tone'' (TVXQ album), a 2011 album by Tohoshinki
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2 Tone (music genre)
Two-tone or 2 tone is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska music with elements of punk rock and new wave music. Its name derives from 2 Tone Records, a record label founded i ...
or Two Tone, style of music combining elements of ska and punk
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''Tones'' (album), a 1986 album by Eric Johnson
Places
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Tone, Gunma
was a village located in Tone District, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 5,025 and a density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volume. T ...
, Japan
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Tone, Ibaraki
260px, Yanagida Kunio Memorial Museum
is a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 15,073 in 6163 households and a population density of 605 persons per km². The percentage of the population aged over 65 was ...
, Japan
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Tone, Somerset, England
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Tone River (disambiguation)
Physiology
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Muscle tone, the state of tension or responsiveness of the organs or tissues of the body
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Toning exercises
Toning exercises are physical exercises that are used with the aim of developing a physique with a large emphasis on musculature. In this context, the term toned implies leanness in the body (low levels of body fat), noticeable muscle definition ...
, the use of exercise to develop hard, but not necessarily large, musculature tone
Other uses
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Tone (literature)
In literature, the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.
Overview
Depending upon the personality of the writer and the effect the writer wants to create, the work can be ...
, a literary technique which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work that is compatible with the other drive
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''Tone'' (magazine), a New Zealand technology magazine
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Tone (name)
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Japanese ship ''Tone'' (pronounced "Toh-Neh"), three warships of Japan
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Tone policing
A tone argument (also called tone policing) is a type of ad hominem aimed at the tone of an argument instead of its factual or logical content. Ignoring the truth or falsity of a statement, a tone argument instead focuses on the emotion with which ...
, focusing on the emotion of a message rather than its content
* Tone's Spices, a brand owned by
Associated British Foods
See also
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Toine Toine is a Dutch given name and a nickname with both masculine and feminine uses. It is a short form of Antoine and a diminutive form of Antonius, Anton, Antoon, Anthonis, Anthoon, Antonie, and Antonis used in Belgium, Netherlands, Suriname, Sout ...
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Ton (disambiguation)
A ton is a unit of mass, force, volume, energy or power.
Ton or TON may also refer to:
Organizations
* Proud of the Netherlands (Trots op Nederland), a Dutch political party
* Tajna Organizacja Nauczycielska, "Secret Teaching Organization", i ...
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Tona (name) Tona, Toña, Toňa and Tóna are given names. Tona is a Danish, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish feminine given name in use in Denmark, Greenland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, parts of the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Hondu ...
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Tonal (disambiguation)
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Tonic (disambiguation)
Tonic may refer to:
*Tonic water, a drink traditionally containing quinine
* Soft drink, a carbonated beverage
* Tonic (physiology), the response of a muscle fiber or nerve ending typified by slow, continuous action
* Tonic syllable, the stressed s ...
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Toney (disambiguation) Toney may refer to:
People
* Toney (name)
Places
* Toney, Alabama, United States
* Toney, West Virginia, United States
* Toney, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
* Toney Fork, West Virginia, United States
* Toney S ...
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Tonie Tonie is a Swedish unisex given name and a nickname that is a diminutive form of Antonia in Sweden. It is also a Dutch unisex given name that is a diminutive form of Antonia, Antonius, Anton, Antoon, Anthonis, and Anthoon in use in Suriname, South ...
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Tune (disambiguation)
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