See also: Raster

English

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Old raster-scan display sample.
 
A raster image.

Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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Verb

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

  1. To scan in parallel lines.

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raster n (plural rasters, diminutive rastertje n)

  1. grid
  2. raster

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Latin rāstrum (rake, noun)

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Noun

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rāster m (genitive rāstrī); second declension

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

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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

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  • 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

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Noun

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raster n

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

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