"flood fill" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: flood fills [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} flood fill (plural flood fills)
  1. (computer graphics) A means of filling a discrete area with colour, based on colouring every pixel that can be recursively reached from a starting point. Wikipedia link: flood fill Categories (topical): Computer graphics Synonyms: seed fill

Inflected forms

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