disinterlace
disinterlace is the misconstruction of deinterlace.
Meaning of deinterlace
Verb
deinterlace (third-person singular simple present deinterlaces, present participle deinterlacing, simple past and past participle deinterlaced)
- 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)
Forms of disinterlace
| third-person singular present | disinterlaces |
|---|---|
| present participle | disinterlacing |
| past participle | disinterlaced |
| past | disinterlaced |
Origin of disinterlace
From dis- + interlace.
Questions about disinterlace
- What is disinterlace the misconstruction of?
- Disinterlace is the misconstruction of deinterlace.
Words near disinterlace in the dictionary
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