raster

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æstə(r)

[edit] Etymology

From German Raster, from Latin raster, from rastrum (“‘a rake’”), from verb radere (“‘to scrape’”).

[edit] Noun

raster (plural rasters)

1. 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. A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.