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high-resolution

a. Having a high resolution; for example, having a large number of pixels per unit area. alt. Having a high resolution; for example, having a large number of pixels per unit area.

WordNet
high-resolution

adj. producing images that are sharp and finely detailed; "high-resolution photography"; "a high-resolution lens"; "high-resolution television" [ant: low-resolution]

Usage examples of "high-resolution".

Kalliana watched as the two older men unrolled sheets of high-resolution satellite photos overprinted with a precise grid and kept track of the zigzagging course their rover had taken.

He had a huge high-resolution monitor with at least a dozen windows open on it, each one filled with long snaking lines of text that Mary Catherine recognized, vaguely, as computer code.

The fortyyear-old U-2 used a new aerial camera, the CA-990, which could take high-resolution pictures from long standoff distances, but to get pictures of Davao, the U-2 had to fly as close as possible to the Mindanao coast-very close to the Chinese warships.

Consider the social ramifications of fission and fusion power, supercomputers, data `highways', abortion, radon, massive reductions in strategic weapons, addiction, government eavesdropping on the lives of its citizens, high-resolution TV, airline and airport safety, foetal tissue transplants, health costs, food additives, drugs to ameliorate mania or depression or schizophrenia, animal rights, superconductivity, morning-after pills, alleged hereditary antisocial predispositions, space stations, going to Mars, finding cures for AIDS and cancer.

A high-resolution image processing system could see two hundred and fifty-six shades of gray, while the human eye could differentiate, at the most, thirty-two.

Until recently, such high-resolution photos were processed first at the National Photographic Interpretation Center in Washington, D.

He sat on a stool in front of the high-resolution color video display unit that was mounted in the same console as a thermal printer that recorded the floor of the lake in 256 shades of gray.

Has a high-resolution color video display unit mounted in the same console as a thermal unit that records the ocean floor in 256 shades of gray.

When Windows came out, and brought the GUI to a much larger market, the hardware regime changed: the cost of color video cards and high-resolution monitors began to drop, and is dropping still.