raster

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  1. noun A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.

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  • “'Scuse me while I page.” Her eyes are brown, with amber raster-lines flickering across her pupils. —  Asimov's SF, Feb 2002
  • FME now enables organizations to translate and convert data between BAG, a widely recognized raster-based bathymetric data exchange format, and over 225 other formats supported by FME. —  GISuser - GIS and Geospatial Technology News
  • The old, 90's method was, if you like, a 'raster' approach: everything was on a single layer. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Just as you cannot use crude raster gfx for many print jobs, crude raster-based 2D pagecode is long outdated for the modern Internet. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Developers can use a new pluggable graphics system that lets them select between raster, native graphics system, or the newly supported OpenGL ES 2.0. —  WindowsForDevices.com
 

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  1. German, from Latin rāstrum, rake (from the resemblance of the parallel lines to a rake's path); see rēd- in Indo-European roots.
 

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