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🎂 To cook in oven 🌞 To feel very hot 🖥️ To precompute graphics
to bake

to bake

20 7.1
To save lighting and shadow details into images to make games run faster
  • verb
  • /beɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : precalcular
  • To enhance efficiency, the developers chose to bake texture information directly into the game files before release.

They'll tell you that the best thing that that Satoshi baked into Bitcoin is the difficulty adjustment.

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Examples

  • By precomputing the shadows and baking them into the textures, they significantly reduced the rendering load during play.

  • Hopefully, other forms of online content can bake more sociability into their equations, evening the playing field.

    Blog text (25)

  • Patents, contracts, land titles, proof of ownership can be baked into Bitcoin.

    Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (2015)

  • The whole concept of SEO needs to be baked into the design workflow from wireframes on.

    Blog text (8)

  • And conveniently, it has been baked into The 4-Hour Body and slow-carb diet lessons.

    Blog text (13)

  • The next day, we were laboring clumsily to open a tiny can of baked beans with Joe's penknife somewhere in rural Virginia.

    Academic text (2009)

  • The graphics team decided to bake the lighting effects into the final rendering to improve performance during gameplay.

Phrasal Verbs

to bake bread
7 1.1

To make bread by cooking dough in an oven

to bake up
1 2.2

Make food in an oven like cakes or bread in a quick new way

Compounds

bake sale
  • US
37 1.7

An event where people sell cakes or cookies to raise money for a cause

Great British Bake Off
1 3.5

A British TV show where amateur bakers compete in weekly baking challenges

perfect bake
3.1

A baked item cooked just right so it has the best texture, taste, and look

Surface Forms

bake infinitive
baked past
baked past participle
baking present participle
bakes third person singular

Etymology

In computer graphics, to bake means 'to fix' light or shadow into an image file so a game can use it quickly. This sense is a cooking metaphor: you 'cook' the lighting into the file until it is ready and set, just like baking a cake makes it stay in shape.