Definitions

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  • noun computing A logical operation in which a block of data is rapidly moved or copied in memory, most commonly used to animate two-dimensional graphics.
  • verb computing, transitive To transfer by a blit operation.

Etymologies

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From BitBLT, the name of a computer graphics operation which stands for bit-block transfer and is pronounced bit blit.

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Examples

  • Music always sort of sharpened me up, O my brothers, and made me feel like old Bog himself, ready to make with the old donner and blit - zen and have vecks and ptitsas creeching away in my ha ha power.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • It was during the height of that Hill-Bill media blit that an email popped into my box.

    Worst Clinton Contributor Ever 2007

  • And his witty afterwords to each story are further inducement to purchase this anti-blit, brain-enhancing book.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • Being the nearly unstoppable force against hordes was a major component of a lot of early arcade and console twitch games, but 3D rendering took a long time to catch up to what good blit hardware could do in 2D.

    Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show 2004

  • The funding shortage crisis within the IEC reached a crisis when the two eight-day registration blit?

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Jeg bar det med taalmodigt skuldertræk, for taalmod er jo blit vor stammes merke.

    An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

  • · Fixed a periodic temporary hang in the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • RenderPlain (ball) screen. blit (background, (0,0)) pygame. display.flip () font = pygame. font.

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community Kruptein 2010

  • They are faster to blit to the screen though, as they use the same 8-bit pixels as the Nintendo DS VRAM, so no conversion is needed.

    QJ.NET Ryan F. 2010

  • · Enhanced the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue to provide values of

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

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