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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bitmap
noun
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▪ Either that, or convert all the bitmaps to the correct resolution.
▪ I mentioned earlier that graphics files are very large, and this is particularly true with bitmap images.
▪ Imagine scanning an image as a bitmap and then converting that to PostScript.
▪ Indeed, Tennis features some excellent 3D figures overlaid on to a bitmap tennis court.
▪ Lines, circles, text and bitmaps can be superimposed on your chart, and can be manipulated as objects.
▪ Our second camp consists of outline fonts which can be scaled to produce a bitmap of any required size and style.
▪ Print speeds were high, with particularly good bitmap and photo results.
▪ The program can also invoke your favourite bitmap editor as soon as a screen is captured.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bitmap

1973, in computer jargon, from bit (n.2) + map. Literally, a map of bits.\n

Wiktionary
bitmap

n. (context computing English) A series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic image, each pixel being represented as a group of bits.

WordNet
bitmap

n. an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels [syn: electronic image]

Wikipedia
Bitmap

In computing, a bitmap is a mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits, that is, values which are zero or one. It is also called a bit array or bitmap index.

In computer graphics, when the domain is a rectangle (indexed by two coordinates) a bitmap gives a way to store a binary image, that is, an image in which each pixel is either black or white (or any two colors).

The more general term pixmap refers to a map of pixels, where each one may store more than two colors, thus using more than one bit per pixel. Often bitmap is used for this as well. In some contexts, the term bitmap implies one bit per pixel, while pixmap is used for images with multiple bits per pixel.

A bitmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits. Now, along with pixmap, it commonly refers to the similar concept of a spatially mapped array of pixels. Raster images in general may be referred to as bitmaps or pixmaps, whether synthetic or photographic, in files or memory.

Many graphical user interfaces use bitmaps in their built-in graphics subsystems; for example, the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 platforms' GDI subsystem, where the specific format used is the Windows and OS/2 bitmap file format, usually named with the file extension of .BMP (or .DIB for device-independent bitmap). Besides BMP, other file formats that store literal bitmaps include InterLeaved Bitmap (ILBM), Portable Bitmap (PBM), X Bitmap (XBM), and Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap (WBMP) . Similarly, most other image file formats, such as JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and GIF, also store bitmap images (as opposed to vector graphics), but they are not usually referred to as bitmaps, since they use compressed formats internally.

Bitmap (group)

Bitmap (born Luke Barwell, 8 January 1973) is a recording artist and producer. Barwell was brought up in Hedon, East Riding of Yorkshire and his first claim to fame was as a member of the indie band Salako. Barwell left Salako in 2002, donned the Bitmap moniker and embarked on a solo career.

Released in 2003, Bitmap's first album Alpha Beta Gamma was nominated album of the week by The Sunday Times and given 8 out of 10 by the NME. Music journalists often describe Bitmap's musical style as being similar to Beck, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, and The Beta Band.

Bitmap (disambiguation)

Bitmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images.

Bitmap or bit map may also mean the following:

  • Bit array, general bit-addressed data structures
  • Bitmap graphics, also known as raster graphics, an image represented by a generally rectangular grid of pixels (co-sitting points of colors)
    • Bitmap file format, a bitmap graphics file format with .bmp filename extension
  • Bitmap (group), an alternative music band from England

Usage examples of "bitmap".

They put the bitmap onto scrolls and gave the scrolls to avatars who went around the Metaverse looking for victims.

They put the bitmap onto scrolls and gave the scrolls to avatars who went around the Metaverse looking for victims.

When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set--a "snow crash.

Wonkily bitmapped fish swam monotonously around in a glass coffee table she?

Beyond that She guessed that the rooftops of the Walled City were its dumping ground, but the things abandoned there were like objects out of a dream, bitmapped fantasies discarded by their creators, their jumbled shapes and textures baffling the eye, the attempt to sort and decipher them inducing a kind of vertigo.

Wonkily bitmapped fish swam monotonously around in a glass coffee table she’d built when she was nine.

Wonkily bitmapped fish swam monotonously around in a glass coffee table she'd built when she was nine.

Tolerantly, Beta submitted to being surface-scanned, deep-radared, and bitmapped.

The other meaning for ebook is a "pirate" or unauthorized electronic edition of a book, usually made by cutting the binding off of a book and scanning it a page at a time, then running the resulting bitmaps through an optical character recognition app to convert them into ASCII text, to be cleaned up by hand.