jaggies

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English jaggy or jagged

Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-

Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English -ie

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ms

Proto-Indo-European *-omsder.

Proto-Germanic *-anzder.?

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂m̥s

Proto-Germanic *-ōz

Proto-Germanic *-ōsder.?

Old English -as

Middle English -es

English -s

English jaggies

From jaggy or jagged + -ie (“diminutive”) + -s (“plural”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

jaggies pl (plural only)

1. (computer graphics, informal) Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.
   • 1999, Brent Heslop, David Angell, Rick Darnell, Microsoft Word 2000 Bible:

     The anti-alias option in image editors helps to eliminate the jaggies.

   • 2007, Pulli et al, Mobile 3D Graphics: With OpenGL ES and M3G

     Edge antialiasing only works at the edges of primitives, but jaggies can happen also at intersections of polygons.