sprite
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5.3
- noun
- /spraɪt/
- Specialized
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sprite
- Did anyone find the black-and-white sprites from Command and Conquer or Civilization III useful at all?
I used to make Pokémon sprites in paint.
- I used to make Pokémon sprites in paint.
Examples
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The developer created a colorful sprite to represent the main character in her new game.
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Let's be honest, the scrolling is choppy, the sprites look a little bit often awkward.
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The Gameduino sprite engine takes up almost the whole chip.
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The students select the images to use for their sprites from a collection that is saved to a common area of the network server.
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I actually didn't use the sprite the first time, but is that how you get the colors to be so vibrant?
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We'll just use a CSS class to change the background position of the sprite, as we've been doing for years.
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Turning off touchable on sprites can help performance during touch processing.
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The animated sprite comes all the way out and leans up against the edge of the infomercial window.
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As the students begin programming their video games, they often start by creating the sprites, which are the images that will represent the various parts of their game.
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Two hours later, I had all the sprites and palettes extracted, presented here in a sweet, sweet collage.
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Synonyms
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4.6
A picture or character that represents a person online
Compounds
How Animated
Surface Forms
Etymology
The computer term sprite uses the same idea of a small, lively 'spirit' on the screen. So a sprite is a little animated image or character that moves like a tiny creature.