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raster
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1934 in electrical engineering, from German Raster "screen, frame," from Latin rastrum "rake," from rasum, from rodere "to scrape" (see raze). Related: Rasterization; rasterize. From Latin form rastellum comes French râteau "rake," formerly ratel, originally rastel.
Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.
WordNet
n. formation consisting of the set of horizontal lines composed of pixels that is used to form an image on a CRT
Wikipedia
Raster may refer to:
- Raster graphics, graphical techniques using arrays of pixel values
- Raster graphics editor, a computer program
- Raster scan, the pattern of image readout, transmission, storage, and reconstruction in television and computer images
- Rasterisation, or rasterization, conversion of a vector image to a raster image
- Raster image processor, or RIP, a component of a printing system that performs rasterisation
- Raster interrupt, a computer interrupt signal
- Raster to vector, an image conversion process
- Raster bar, an effect used in computer demos
- Raster-Noton, a record label
- Rastrum, a device used in medieval music manuscripts to draw staff lines
- Raster Document Object, a file format
Usage examples of "raster".
Pulsit raved, Raster swilled, and Durki wretched their collective way across the Sea of Baraboo until they came in sight of the continent of Midway.
He graphed the sleep and body temperature cycles together in a two-dimensional format called a raster plot.
Parody of Hollis Frampton's 'audience-specific events,' two Ikegami EC-35 video cameras in theater record the 'film' 's audience and project the resultant raster onto screen the theater audience watching itself watch itself get the obvious 'joke' and become increasingly self-conscious and uncomfortable and hostile supposedly comprises the film's involuted 'antinarrative' flow.
The dark green fluorescent screen raster with its complex coordinate grids stared back at him with blank obstinacy.
The bow, with its designator TR4, expanded grainily on the screen, flecks of random phosphor blurring the sharpness somewhat as raster lines were added in processing between those swept on the videotape original.