raster

From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādere (“to scrape”, verb).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæstɚ/
• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

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.
2. (computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.

   Synonyms: bitmap, pixmap

   Coordinate term: vector

raster (third-person singular simple present rasters, present participle rastering, simple past and past participle rastered)

1. To scan in parallel lines.

• raster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “raster”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Arters, arrest, arrêts, rarest, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras

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raster n (plural rasters, diminutive rastertje n)

1. grid
2. raster

• arrest, starer, terras

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈraːs.ter/, [ˈräːs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈras.ter/, [ˈräst̪er]

rāster m (genitive rāstrī); second declension

1. (usually in the plural) Alternative form of rāstrum n

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• “raster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• raster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

raster n

1. a raster, a grid
2. indefinite plural of rast

• rastrera

• arrest, arters, estrar, tsarer