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🖼️ To make scalable ⚡ To speed up processing 📊 To use vectors
to vectorize

to vectorize

7.2
Change a picture into lines and shapes that can be made larger without losing quality
  • verb
  • /ˈvɛktəraɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : vectorizar
  • To improve the quality of our graphics, we need to vectorize the original images.

Examples

  • Therefore, for this exercise, we only need the clinical diagnosis issued by the practitioner in a raw text format that must be vectorized prior to the elimination of stop-words.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The designer decided to vectorize the artwork to make it suitable for large-scale printing.

  • Yeah, I love the idea of vectorizing the patent drawing space.

  • Don't change a thing, but just vectorize what has to be vectorized.

  • When preparing the files for the website, don't forget to vectorize the logos for better resolution.

Surface Forms

vectorize infinitive
vectorized past
vectorized past participle
vectorizing present participle
vectorizes third person singular

Morphology

vectorize = vector (transparent) = vector + ize

Formed by the productive verbalizing suffix '-ize' attached to 'vector'; the meaning 'make or convert into a vector' is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word vectorize comes from vector 'a thing that carries or shows direction' and the ending -ize 'make'. So to vectorize an image is to 'make it into a vector', meaning lines and shapes that can be made bigger or smaller without losing quality.