raster
pronunciation
How to pronounce raster in British English:
UK ['ræstə]
How to pronounce raster in American English:
US ['ræstə]
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- Noun:
- formation consisting of the set of horizontal lines composed of pixels that is used to form an image on a CRT
Word Origin
- raster (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. We use computers with raster displays and manipulate windows of hypertext information using mice .
- 2. Explains how to crop and scale vector and raster images .
- 3. Structure that contains raster drawing capabilities .
- 4. An error occurred while converting a raster image .
- 5. The connector also maintains the integrity of autocad referenced drawings ( xrefs ) , as well as other types of referenced files ( dgn , pdf , raster , etc. ) , by automatically associating them to the current autocad drawing within the alfresco repository .