raster
verbEtymology From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“to scrape”, verb).
1
To scan in parallel lines.
raster
nounUS /ˈɹæstɚ/ · AU, NZ /ˈɹɑːstə(ɹ)/
Etymology From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“to scrape”, verb).
1
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.
2
Computer graphics, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.
- Derived terms
- mixed raster content, nonraster, raster burn, raster graphics, rasterisation, rasterise, rasterization, rasterize, raster mask, raster plot, rasterstereography, subraster