raster
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Old raster-scan display sample. 
A raster image.
See also: Raster
English
Etymology
From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādere (“to scrape”, verb).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹæstɚ/
- Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Noun
raster (plural rasters)
- (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.
- (computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.
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Translations
computer graphics: a bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines
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Verb
raster (third-person singular simple present rasters, present participle rastering, simple past and past participle rastered)
- To scan in parallel lines.
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Noun
raster n (plural rasters, diminutive rastertje n)
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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
rāster m (genitive rāstrī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
| Case | 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
- a raster, a grid
- indefinite plural of rast
Declension
| Declension of raster | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | raster | rastret | raster | rastren |
| Genitive | rasters | rastrets | rasters | rastrens |