Meaning

2 senses
  1. A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.

    Raster

    the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor

  2. A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.

    Rasterbild, Rastergrafik, Pixelgrafik

Examples

1 sentences
  1. What is the difference between raster and vector graphics?

    ruВ чем разница между растровой и векторной графикой? — awiz

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
scanning pattern of parallel lines:
computer graphics: a bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines:

Origin

From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“to scrape”

From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“to scrape”, verb).

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