bitmap
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈbɪtˌmæp/
- Specialized
:
mapa de bits
- The artist created a colorful bitmap for the poster design, ensuring each pixel had a unique color.
- bitmap image
And then eventually we started to get colour terminals that were bitmap, not vector.
- And then eventually we started to get colour terminals that were bitmap, not vector.
Examples
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The page is converted to bitmap form directly at the display or printer.
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One of the issues is that apps don't scale, and because iOS uses bitmaps everywhere, they won't scale properly.
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And then later on in the book when I get to digital images, because it is just a bitmap, here we go.
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And when you tell it to move position or to scale, it actually just takes that bitmap and and moves it for you.
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The fact is that the final product of any icon is a bitmap file.
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Note that Inkscape can import and display bitmap images, too.
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It just sends you a bitmap scan only in PDF format.
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A bitmap file can be represented with a whole bunch of RGB triples, red, green, blue, pixel, red, green, blue triples.
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It's really simple to click, upload, and throw in a bitmap, a jpg, a PNG, and have the Glowforge etch your image onto wood.
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I use Xara Designer Pro X for everything I do, with the exception of converting bitmaps to grayscale and CMYK.
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Synonyms
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1.0
A picture showing a person or thing
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3.9
A picture stored on a computer as many small dots of light
How Detailed
- Specialized
22
3.8
- Specialized
3
4.6
- Texting
18
3.4
- Specialized
89
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bitmap comes from bit ('a very small piece of computer information') and map ('a picture that shows where things are'). So a bitmap is like a 'map' made of many tiny bits, meaning the image is built from a grid of small squares called pixels, and each bit tells the color or brightness.