Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the representation of graphic images as bitmaps.
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- adjective computing Represented by a
bitmap .
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Examples
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It featured a monochrome 320 x 240 square-dot display and relatively advanced video features such as a purely bitmapped display, allowing a customizable character set, the mixing text and graphics on the same screen, and raster operations like continuous smooth panning and scrolling.
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When you view a picture, zoom in on a map or read a book in an application such as Apple's iBooks or Amazon's Kindle, the complete absence of the usual jagged, bitmapped edges is arresting.
Sharp and smart iPhone 4 offers even more -- along with the same old flaws 2010
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The only custom bitmapped graphics in the app are the splash screen and the cover images for each book.
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Much graphics programming uses Cartesian coordinates as they map directly to a bitmapped display.
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All The Eye has ever witnessed since our collective lust spawned it from a sea of words and bitmapped images is pure biological drive, and it despises us for that.
Lurking, Fluidly 2006
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Most graphic-design software still relies on uncredited variations of the pencil, lasso, pan hand, and paint can that she bitmapped for the Mac.
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With the antennae sticking up, it looks like those bitmapped Space Invaders things.
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Silken celluloid an autumnal effluvium of bitmapped memories consiged to Mandelbrot branches and fossil roots;
Archive 2006-10-01 Mac 2006
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They have added a basic version for $49 and have added the bitmapped export I recommended here.
Archive 2006-11-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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They have added a basic version for $49 and have added the bitmapped export I recommended here.
MicroCharts Update Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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