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deinterlace

UK/diːˈɪntəleɪs/

deinterlace verb: to convert (video footage) into a non-interlaced format; to remove one field from each video frame.

Verb

deinterlace (third-person singular simple present deinterlaces, present participle deinterlacing, simple past and past participle deinterlaced)

  1. (transitive) To convert (video footage) into a non-interlaced format; to remove one field from each video frame.
    • A deinterlace filter for interlaced raster scanned video data receiving sequential fields of video data one pixel at a time with each pixel of video data being received during a pixel time and outputing a deinterlaced frame of video data for each field received, the deinterlace filter comprising […]1984, System for spatially transforming images, US Patent 4472732 (PDF version)
    • I think that an improved receiver, which could do deinterlacing, doubling the frame rate, perhaps combined with some way of getting rid of subcarrier-related artifacts, might be MAC or something else.1985, SMPTE Journal: Publication of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, volume 94

Forms of deinterlace

third-person singular presentdeinterlaces
present participledeinterlacing
past participledeinterlaced
pastdeinterlaced

Origin of deinterlace

From de- + interlace.

Words formed from deinterlace

Questions about deinterlace

What does deinterlace mean?
Deinterlace means to convert (video footage) into a non-interlaced format; to remove one field from each video frame.
What part of speech is deinterlace?
Deinterlace is a verb.
How do you pronounce deinterlace?
Deinterlace is pronounced /diːˈɪntəleɪs/ (UK).
What is the past tense of deinterlace?
The past tense of deinterlace is deinterlaced.

Words near deinterlace in the dictionary

  1. deintercalated
  2. deintercalating
  3. deintercalation
  4. deintercalations
  5. deinterjectional
  6. deinterlace
  7. deinterlaced
  8. deinterlacer
  9. deinterlacers
  10. deinterlaces
  11. deinterlacing

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