"jaggies" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-uk-jaggies.ogg
Etymology: From jaggy or jagged + -ie (“diminutive”) + -s (“plural”). Etymology templates: {{affix|en|jaggy or jagged|-ie|-s|t2=diminutive|t3=plural}} jaggy or jagged + -ie (“diminutive”) + -s (“plural”) Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} jaggies pl (plural only)
  1. (computer graphics, informal) Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio. Wikipedia link: jaggies Tags: informal, plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Computer graphics
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