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  2. Tone (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Tone and mood are not the same, although they are frequently confused. [12] The mood of a piece of literature is the feeling or atmosphere created by the work, or, said slightly differently, how the work makes the reader feel.

  3. Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...

  4. Tone - Wikipedia

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    Tone (linguistics), the pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages; Tone (musical instrument), the audible characteristics of a musician's sound; Musical tone, a sound characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity, and timbre; Pure tone, a tone with a sinusoidal waveform; Reciting tone, such as Psalm tone and recitative, as in ...

  5. Tone mapping - Wikipedia

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    Tone mapped high-dynamic-range (HDR) image of St. Kentigerns Roman Catholic Church in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK. Tone mapping is a technique used in image processing and computer graphics to map one set of colors to another to approximate the appearance of high-dynamic-range (HDR) images in a medium that has a more limited dynamic range.

  6. Tone indicator - Wikipedia

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    A tone indicator or tone tag is a symbol attached to a sentence or message sent in a textual form, such as over the internet, ...

  7. Musical tone - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally in Western music, a musical tone is a steady periodic sound. A musical tone is characterized by its duration , pitch , intensity (or loudness ), and timbre (or quality). [ 1 ] The notes used in music can be more complex than musical tones, as they may include aperiodic aspects, such as attack transients , vibrato , and envelope ...

  8. What is a CLEAR alert? Here's what to know and which ... - AOL

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    Once sent, the Emergency Alert System plays the nation's alert tone and a description of the child, possible suspect and vehicle used is shared. The text is shown on digital transportation highway ...

  9. Timbre - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 suspended chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Below is the E9 suspended chord audio: In music, timbre (/ ˈ t æ m b ər, ˈ t ɪ m-, ˈ t æ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.