Meaning & use

bitmap

noun·Academic

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A digital image made up of a grid of individual pixels, each with a specific color value.

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The old video game graphics were simple bitmaps with only a few colors.

She exported the logo as a bitmap file for use on the website.

A note on using this word

Bitmap images lose quality when resized larger, unlike vector graphics, which scale without becoming blurry.

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