OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29311

halation

/həˈleɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
halo
The action of light surrounding some object as if making a halo.
She was, as you know, to the west-ward of us, and the sunset was making a great flame of red light to the back of her, so that she showed a little blurred and indistinct by reason…
halo
The blurring of light around a bright area of a photographic image, or on a television screen.
As the result of a series of experiments on halation carried out with backed and unbacked plates, ordinary film and stripping film, Ernest Marriage concludes that there are two var…
Halation, properly speaking, is the reflection and diffusion, within the film, from the lighter areas to the adjacent darker ones.
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