Greyscale

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  grey-scale
       
           (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades
          of grey.  If the {pixels} of a grey-scale {image} have N
          {bit}s, they may take values from zero, representing black up
          to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values


          representing increasingly light shades of grey.  If N=1 the
          image is not called grey-scale but could be called
          {monochrome}.
       
          2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for
          use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
       
          (1995-03-17)