raster

See also: Raster

English

Old raster-scan display sample.

A raster image.

Etymology

From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“to scrape”, verb).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæstɚ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑːstə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ)
• Homophone: rasta(in some pronunciations)

Noun

raster (plural rasters)

1. (electronics) 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. (computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.

   Synonyms: bitmap, pixmap

   Coordinate term: vector

Derived terms

• raster burn
• raster graphics
• raster plot
• subraster

Translations

scanning pattern of parallel lines

• German: Raster (de) n

computer graphics: a bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines

• Esperanto: rastero, rastrumo
• German: Rasterbild n, Rastergrafik f, Pixelgrafik f
• Greek: ράστερ (el) (ráster)
• Portuguese: raster, matricial

Verb

raster (third-person singular simple present rasters, present participle rastering, simple past and past participle rastered)

1. To scan in parallel lines.

Further reading

• raster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “raster”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Arters, arrest, arrêts, rarest, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

raster n (plural rasters, diminutive rastertje n)

1. grid
2. raster

Anagrams

• arrest, starer, terras

Latin

Etymology

From Latin rāstrum (“rake”, noun)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈraːs.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈras.t̪er]

Noun

rāster m (genitive rāstrī); second declension

1. (usually in the plural) Alternative form of rāstrum n

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

	singular	plural
nominative	rāster	rāstrī
genitive	rāstrī	rāstrōrum
dative	rāstrō	rāstrīs
accusative	rāstrum	rāstrōs
ablative	rāstrō	rāstrīs
vocative	rāster	rāstrī

References

• “raster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• raster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Swedish

Noun

raster n

1. a raster, a grid
2. indefinite plural of rast

Declension

Declension of raster

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	raster	rasters
	definite	rastret	rastrets
plural	indefinite	raster	rasters
	definite	rastren	rastrens

Related terms

• rastrera

References

• raster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• raster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• raster in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• arrest, arters, estrar, tsarer