posterize

== English == === Etymology === From poster +‎ -ize (suffix forming verbs denoting something which is done or made). Sense 1.1 (“to reduce the number of colours”) refers to the original use of the process to produce posters. Sense 1.2 (“to score a slam dunk in basketball against (one or more opposing players) by leaping over them”) refers to the action being so spectacular as to warrant a photograph of it being printed on a poster. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊstəɹaɪz/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊstəˌɹaɪz/ Hyphenation: post‧er‧ize === Verb === posterize (third-person singular simple present posterizes, present participle posterizing, simple past and past participle posterized) (American and Oxford British spelling) (transitive) (graphic design, photography) To inadvertently or intentionally reduce the number of colours in (a photograph or other image), changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones with abrupt changes from one tone to another. (Canada, US, basketball, slang) To score a slam dunk in basketball against (one or more opposing players) by leaping over them; also (by extension, sports, slang), to score a goal, a point, etc., in some other sport against (one or more opposing players) in a spectacular manner. (intransitive, graphic design, photography) To inadvertently or intentionally reduce the number of colours in a photograph or other image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones with abrupt changes from one tone to another. ==== Alternative forms ==== posterise (non-Oxford British spelling) ==== Derived terms ==== posterization, posterisation posterizing, posterising (noun) ==== Related terms ==== posterized, posterised (adjective) (in sense 1.1, attested earlier than the verb) ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === posterization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia posterized on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === poetizers