Definition of bitmap in English:
bitmap
nounPlural bitmapsˈbɪtmapˈbɪtˌmæp
Computing A representation in which each item corresponds to one or more bits of information, especially the information used to control the display of a computer screen.
Example sentencesExamples
- This version used bitmaps for each menu screen, rather than text-based menus.
- Most programmers eventually have to manipulate bitmaps for icons or toolbars, and most programmers don't have a good bitmap editor available.
- It is well matched with creating, transforming and outputting digital images of a photographic nature which share common pixels in a bitmap.
- For static items like a dialog box, bitmaps are enough.
- Databases can store resources such as bitmaps, executable code, forms and more.
verbbitmapping, bitmaps, bitmappedˈbɪtmapˈbɪtˌmæp
[with object]Computing Represent (an item) as a bitmap.
Example sentencesExamples
- The idea was to offer serious readers digitized and bitmapped versions of books from every age, allowing both access to the text as a corpus, and as a set of specially designed original pages.
- As noted above, the Acronis offering takes a bitmapped image of the disk while still in Windows and then monitors subsequent write operations.
- No bitmapped scans are these: our postscript images will print crisply at any size.
- If the design of your hard copy resume includes columns, bullets or bitmapped graphics, adapt a less complex layout for your e-mail version.
- Nevertheless, you will still need to import graphics and any images that are bitmapped.