"aspect ratio" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: aspect ratios [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} aspect ratio (plural aspect ratios)
  1. The ratio of an object's longest dimension to its next-longest dimension. Related terms: letterbox, pan and scan, widescreen Translations (the ratio of an object's longest dimension to its next-longest dimension): 縱橫比 (Chinese Mandarin), 纵横比 (zònghéngbǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 長寬比 (Chinese Mandarin), 长宽比 (chángkuānbǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 比例 (bǐlì) (Chinese Mandarin), aspectverhouding [feminine] (Dutch), ratio d’aspect [masculine] (French), Aspektverhältnis [neuter] (German), Längenverhältnis [neuter] (German), Seitenverhältnis [neuter] (German), λόγος διαστάσεων (lógos diastáseon) [masculine] (Greek), 縦横比 (tateyokohi) (alt: たてよこひ) (Japanese), коэффицие́нт сжа́тия (koefficijént sžátija) [masculine] (Russian), cociente de aspecto [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-aspect_ratio-en-noun-NBvzO9jW Disambiguation of "the ratio of an object's longest dimension to its next-longest dimension": 92 8
  2. The ratio of width to height in a flat surface or 2-dimensional abstract construction, such as an image, character, or pixel. Translations (the ratio of width to height in a flat surface or 2-dimensional abstract construction): 縱橫比 (Chinese Mandarin), 纵横比 (zònghéngbǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 寬高比 (Chinese Mandarin), 宽高比 (kuāngāobǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), aspectverhouding [feminine] (Dutch), kuvasuhde (english: image, screen etc.) (Finnish), sivusuhde (note: general object) (Finnish), facteur de forme [masculine] (French), rapport de forme [masculine] (French), Bildformat (english: photo) [neuter] (German), Bildseitenformat (english: screen) [neuter] (German), Bildseitenverhältnis (english: screen) [neuter] (German), Format [neuter] (German), Zuschnitt [masculine] (German), λόγος διαστάσεων (lógos diastáseon) [masculine] (Greek), 縦横比 (tateyokohi) (alt: たてよこひ) (Japanese), アスペクト比 (asupekuto-hi) (alt: アスペクトひ) (Japanese), коэффицие́нт пропорциона́льности (koefficijént proporcionálʹnosti) [masculine] (Russian), bildformat [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-aspect_ratio-en-noun-WfsvSN2I Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of 'the ratio of width to height in a flat surface or 2-dimensional abstract construction': 11 89

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.