Tone may refer to:

Color-related

* Tone (color theory), a mix of tint and shade, in painting and color theory * Tone (color), the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a colour *

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 *

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

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 *

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 * Musical tone, a sound characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity, and timbre *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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

* Tone (DC band), a DC instrumental band formed in 1991 * ''Tone'' (Jeff Ament album), a 2008 album by Jeff Ament * ''Tone'' (TVXQ album), a 2011 album by Tohoshinki *

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 * ''Tones'' (album), a 1986 album by Eric Johnson

Places

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 *

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 * Tone, Somerset, England * Tone River (disambiguation)

Physiology

* Muscle tone, the state of tension or responsiveness of the organs or tissues of the body *

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

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 * ''Tone'' (magazine), a New Zealand technology magazine * Tone (name) * Japanese ship ''Tone'' (pronounced "Toh-Neh"), three warships of Japan *

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