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bitstarving

bitstarving is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about bitstarving

What is bitstarving the present participle and gerund of?
Bitstarving is the present participle and gerund of bitstarve.

Words near bitstarving in the dictionary

  1. bitslices
  2. bitsquatting
  3. bitstarve
  4. bitstarved
  5. bitstarves
  6. bitstarving
  7. bitstate
  8. bitstates
  9. bitstock
  10. bitstocks
  11. bitstream

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