bitmap

or bit map

[ bit-map ]

noun

, Computers.

1. a piece of text, a drawing, etc., represented, as on a computer display, by the activation of certain dots in a rectangular matrix of dots.

bitmap

/ ˈbɪtˌmæp /

noun

1. a picture created on a visual display unit where each pixel corresponds to one or more bits in memory, the number of bits per pixel determining the number of available colours

verb

1. tr to create a bitmap of

bitmap

/ bĭt′măp′ /

1. A set of bits that represents a graphic image. Each bit or group of bits corresponds to a pixel in the image. Optical scanners and fax machines convert text or pictures into bitmaps.

Other Words From

• bitmapped adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bitmap¹

First recorded in 1970–75; bit ³( def ) + map ( def )

Example Sentences

A week’s effort of filtering the data segment, which Carracedo Carballal likens to peeling layers off an onion, eventually led to an 8.2-kilobyte bitmap image of five speckled clusters set against a blank background.

From Scientific American

None of them were able to understand its contents, and only one figured out that the binary was meant to be a bitmap.

From Scientific American

While Apple uses bitmaps to render its emoji, Microsoft uses a vector format which is far more scalable and has file size benefits if emoji are flatter.

From The Verge

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