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

grey-scale
     
         us "gray-scale" 1. composed of discrete shades
        of grey.  if the pixels of a grey-scale image have n
        bits, 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
     
     
see also:
pixels image bit monochrome 

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