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unsharp

adj

Etymology

From Middle English *unscharp, from Old English unsċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *unskarp, from Proto-Germanic *unskarpaz, equivalent to un- + sharp. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunskäärp (“unsharp”), West Frisian ûnskerp (“unsharp”), Dutch onscherp (“unsharp”), German Low German unscharp (“unsharp”), German unscharf (“unsharp”), Danish uskarp (“unsharp”), Swedish oskarp (“unsharp”), Norwegian uskarp (“unsharp”).

  1. inherited from *unskarpaz✻
  2. inherited from *unskarp✻
  3. inherited from unsċearp
  4. inherited from *unscharp✻

Definitions

  1. Not sharp.

  2. To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then…

    To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then combining that mask with the original.

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Derived

unsharpness

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA