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dithered

dithered adjective: produced by dithering; consisting of bits in different colors placed side by side to simulate an intermediate color that is not in the palette, or the somewhat banded or mottled look that this can produce. Also the simple past and past participle of dither.

Adjective

dithered (comparative more dithered, superlative most dithered)

  1. Produced by dithering; consisting of bits in different colors placed side by side to simulate an intermediate color that is not in the palette, or the somewhat banded or mottled look that this can produce.
    • Keeping in mind the minimum target configuration of 256 colours the pictures mode was changed from thousands to 256 colours. This sort of a conversion gives a very dithered look to the picture.1995, Walter Schertler, Beat Schmid, Hannes Werthner, Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, page 154
    • Being able to apply lossy compression to parts of an image affords a whole new realm of control: only areas in an image that have a very dithered texture, such as beaches and streets, can benefit from lossy compression, as can dark areas where the human eye is less capable of distinguishing hues.2000, Michael Baumgardt, Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Web Design with ImageReady 2 and Adobe GoLive 4, page 247

Also used as

dithered is also the simple past and past participle of dither.

Forms of dithered

comparativemore dithered
superlativemost dithered

Words formed from dithered

Questions about dithered

What does dithered mean?
Dithered means produced by dithering; consisting of bits in different colors placed side by side to simulate an intermediate color that is not in the palette, or the somewhat banded or mottled look that this can produce.
What part of speech is dithered?
Dithered is an adjective.

Words near dithered in the dictionary

  1. dithelism
  2. dithematic
  3. dither
  4. dither fish
  5. dither fishes
  6. dithered
  7. ditherer
  8. ditherers
  9. dithering
  10. ditheringly
  11. ditherings

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