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pixmap

noun

Etymology

Blend of pixel + map.

  1. derived from mappa — “napkin, cloth”
  2. derived from mappa mundī
  3. derived from mapamonde
  4. derived from mappemounde
  5. compounded as pixmap — “pixel + map”

Definitions

  1. A grid of pixels

    A grid of pixels; a bitmap, especially one having more than one bit (binary digit) assigned to each pixel, allowing for multiple shades or colors.

    • PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pixmap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA