raster

Definitions


[ˈrastə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a rectangular pattern of parallel scanning lines followed by the electron beam on a television screen or computer monitor
(e.g: a raster image)


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Origin:
1930s: from German Raster, literally ‘screen’, from Latin rastrum ‘rake’, from ras- ‘scraped’, from the verb radere




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