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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A set of bits that represents a graphic image, with each bit or group of bits corresponding to a pixel in the image.

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  • noun computing a series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic image, each pixel being represented as a group of bits

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  • noun an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels

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bit +‎ map

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