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bit-starve

bit-starve is the alternative spelling of bitstarve.

Meaning of bitstarve

Verb

bitstarve (third-person singular simple present bitstarves, present participle bitstarving, simple past and past participle bitstarved)

  1. (transitive) To cause something to have compression artifacts (esp. blocking) by using too small a bitrate.
    • This is why bit-starved transmission streams yield a very blocky appearance. They reveal the blocky structure because the fine detail is lost and that prevents the edges of the macroblocks from merging into one another perfectly.2005, Cliff Wootton, A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression: From Sprockets and Rasters to Macroblocks, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 206

Forms of bit-starve

third-person singular presentbit-starves
present participlebit-starving
past participlebit-starved
pastbit-starved

Questions about bit-starve

What is bit-starve the alternative spelling of?
Bit-starve is the alternative spelling of bitstarve.

Words near bit-starve in the dictionary

  1. bit-paired
  2. bit-shift
  3. bit-shifted
  4. bit-shifting
  5. bit-shifts
  6. bit-starve
  7. bit-starved
  8. bit-starves
  9. bit-starving
  10. Bita
  11. bitable

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