Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor
Etymologies
- German, from Latin rāstrum, rake (from the resemblance of the parallel lines to a rake's path); see rēd- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Below is the same carousel widget in N810, using the "raster" graphics backend:”
“The award highlights Safe Software's strong partnership with Oracle and their contributions to the Oracle Spatial community, demonstrated by their consistent support for Oracle Spatial technologies and early adoption of new features such as raster and 3D.”
“· Supports embedding almost any kind of raster or vector images.”
“It featured a monochrome 320 x 240 square-dot display and relatively advanced video features such as a purely bitmapped display, allowing a customizable character set, the mixing text and graphics on the same screen, and raster operations like continuous smooth panning and scrolling.”
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“Because the FITS data format is not a raster format, but has a much larger dynamic range of values that can be analyzed, it is possible to scale our view of the full collected data and overcome the limits of standard photographic techniques.”
Wolfram Blog : Secrets of the Universe Hiding on My Home Computer
“Flip wrote some kind of program in Mathematica which is probably trying to display a rotated raster, but he made a mistake in his code, which correctly caused Mathematica to display this error message.”
“What if we use the actual color data from the raster images of the flags and take into account the number of pixels of each?”
“And for awhile there have been hints that Tom was participating in anew project that would release abroader set of basemap data, including high-quality vector data as well as raster layers.”
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » The Natural Earth Dataset Is Online
“In addition to bringing raster-based data into NetLogo models (such as using USGS elevation data in this Grand Canyon model that Eric previously contributed to) the extension allows for import of vector data in the form of shapefiles.”
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » GIS Extension for NetLogo Released
“A few days ago I was trying to convert a raster image to a vector image.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘raster’.
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Babble Tech
Go Babble! Words, if you can call them that, from the world of technology and computers. I'll try to make sure each one is represented by a Wordnik example.
cifsiostat, nfsiostat, mpstat, iostat, pidstat, sar, sysstat, cron, fetchmail, zypper, mysqldump, rsync and 102 more...
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• Words I often hear at my workplace
We don't know much of each other. (And this is probably why we still like each other.)
Add a word you hear at your workplace, and increase the mistery.
(One at a time, as in a spy story.)cathemerality, phylogenetics, lead generation, acquisitions, haha response, barcode, arthur or martha ..., venti, pedagogically, symphony product, p and ls, recovery process and 100 more...
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phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
rya, rutilant, ruthful, rutherford, ruth, rusticity, rusticate, Russophobia, Russophile, russet, russel, rushlight and 514 more...
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rays & x-rays
raised rays
cow-nosed ray, x-ray, roentgenogram, radiogram, sunray, tomograph, whipparee, oxeye, thulium, raster, moonbeam, robinia and 86 more...
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Rakes
rake, rakes, brakes, hale, as thin as a rake, rakehell, horserake, star-wheel rake, hand-rake, rake helly, A child sitting i..., sulky rake and 47 more...
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patterns
ergodic, stochastic, stereopsis, echolocation, holocation, broker, map, intarsia, encipher, ocellus, muslin, mandelbrot set and 159 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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slovenščina
bezníca, stanovíten, rabelj, látovš�?ina, razváda, moríja, drobóvje, izpahníti, stvòr, skrúniti, klén, ljúbek and 151 more...
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strev's list
ponzipalooza, lubricious, dingo, betaphorest, kersplat, beowolf, disambiguous, microskirt, feral, svelte, wobbly pops, thwack and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for raster.
strev Also refers to bitmapped images that have a finite size.
Vector images are infinitely scaleable. Apr 14, 2009
rolig In Slovene: printmaking screen, hatching Apr 14, 2009