"raster" meaning in English

See raster in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈɹæstɚ/ [General-American], /ˈɹɑːstə(ɹ)/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand] Forms: rasters [plural]
Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ) Etymology: From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“to scrape”, verb). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Raster}} German Raster, {{der|en|la|rāster}} Latin rāster Head templates: {{en-noun}} 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. Categories (topical): Electronics Translations (scanning pattern of parallel lines): Raster [neuter] (German)
    Sense id: en-raster-en-noun-SEh4Y73H Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 5 1 21 30 4 35 4 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 1 25 35 3 29 2 1 Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'scanning pattern of parallel lines': 79 21
  2. (computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines. Categories (topical): Computer graphics Synonyms: bitmap, pixmap Translations (computer graphics: a bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines): rastero (Esperanto), rastrumo (Esperanto), Rasterbild [neuter] (German), Rastergrafik [feminine] (German), Pixelgrafik [feminine] (German), ράστερ (ráster) (Greek), raster (Portuguese), matricial (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-raster-en-noun-p6LqvAox Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 52 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 35 54 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 5 1 21 30 4 35 4 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 1 25 35 3 29 2 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 39 53 9 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 38 53 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 34 49 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 39 52 9 Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'computer graphics: a bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines': 23 77
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: raster burn, raster graphics, raster plot, subraster

Verb

IPA: /ˈɹæstɚ/ [General-American], /ˈɹɑːstə(ɹ)/ [General-Australian, New-Zealand] Forms: rasters [present, singular, third-person], rastering [participle, present], rastered [participle, past], rastered [past]
Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ) Etymology: From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“to scrape”, verb). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Raster}} German Raster, {{der|en|la|rāster}} Latin rāster Head templates: {{en-verb}} raster (third-person singular simple present rasters, present participle rastering, simple past and past participle rastered)
  1. To scan in parallel lines.
    Sense id: en-raster-en-verb-0CiR4SnN

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.