bit-mapped image

noun

, Digital Technology.

1. a computer image that is held in memory as a series of colored dots in a grid, each dot represented by one or more bits.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bit-mapped image¹

First recorded in 1985–90; bit ³( def ) + -mapped ( def ) + image ( def )

Example Sentences

SPERBERG-McQUEEN conceded that one other model not illustrated on his two displays was the model of text as a bit-mapped image, an image of a page, and confessed to having been converted to a limited extent by the Workshop to the view that electronic images constitute a promising, probably superior alternative to microfilming.

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