blitter

English

Etymology

blit +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

Noun

blitter (plural blitters)

1. (computing) A software or hardware mechanism that blits.
   • 1986, InfoWorld (volume 8, number 49, 8 December 1986, 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.

Derived terms

• bob
• shadebob

Anagrams

• brittle, triblet