noun
- plural of raster; patterns of parallel scanning lines used to form images on electronic displays or in digital graphics
Usage: technical; computing
Examples
- The computer monitor displays images using horizontal rasters.
- Digital artists work with rasters when creating pixel-based graphics.
- The television screen refreshes its rasters sixty times per second.
- Rasters are fundamental to how CRT monitors produce visual output.
- The graphics card processes rasters to render the final image.
- Old arcade games used simple rasters to create their visual effects.