blitter

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English

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Etymology

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From blit +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (UK):(file)

Noun

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blitter (plural blitters)

  1. (computing) A software or hardware mechanism that blits.
    • 1986 December 8, InfoWorld, volume 8, number 49, page 46:
      Not only is the Amiga blitter fully integrated with and supported by the system as a whole, it also has access to its own direct memory channel []
    • 2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, page 315:
      Using the hardware blitter to move bitmaps from VRAM to VRAM is much faster than moving them from system memory to VRAM.

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