Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Computer Science A service mark used for a raster-based format for storing files of color graphics.
Wiktionary
- computing A bitmap image format for pictures with up to 256 distinct colors.
- v. to create a GIF file of (an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Computers) The Graphics Interchange Format, one of the most popular standardized formats for storing graphic data in binary computer files. The standard has been revised several times, and includes provisions for interlacing and animating images. Its disadvantage is that it can store only 256 colors. Compare JPEG.
- n. (Computers) An image stored in GIF{1} format, or the file in which the image is stored.
Examples
“The gif directory contains a large number of GIF graphics images.”
The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 7: FTP
“Observation: If you have more than one tipe of image (jpe or gif for example) the order will be: JPG, PNG, GIF, then alphabetical order.”
“· Support converting VCD video from dat, mpeg, mpg file to Gif Animation and GIF, BMP, EPS,”
“· Support converting video from MOV, QuickTime file to Gif Animation and GIF, BMP, EPS, JPG,”
“· Support converting video from MOV, QuickTimefile to Gif Animation and GIF, BMP, EPS, JPG,”
“You may assign any portion of your savings you want to a GIF (general investment fund), from which standard and micro loans are made, current rate of return on the GIF is 7.24%”
“All documents are black-and-white fax-quality scans (in GIF format) of paper documents from the Institute for Documentation in Israel.”
“Plain GIF and JPG image ads typically get about 0.1% click-through rates.”
“By comparison, the click-through rate for plain GIF or JPG image ads ranges between 0.1 and 0.2 percent, based on DoubleClick data.”
“The resurgence of the GIF is a throwback to the early Internet of the 90s.”
The Huffington Post: Are 19th Century Stereographs The Modern-Day GIF?
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