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dot crawl

dot crawl noun: a visual defect in a video signal, manifesting as animated checkerboard patterns that appear along horizontal colour transitions (vertical edges), and caused by intermodulation or crosstalk between chrominance and luminance components of the signal.

Noun

dot crawl (uncountable)

  1. A visual defect in a video signal, manifesting as animated checkerboard patterns that appear along horizontal colour transitions (vertical edges), and caused by intermodulation or crosstalk between chrominance and luminance components of the signal.

Questions about dot crawl

What does dot crawl mean?
Dot crawl means a visual defect in a video signal, manifesting as animated checkerboard patterns that appear along horizontal colour transitions (vertical edges), and caused by intermodulation or crosstalk between chrominance and luminance components of the signal.
What part of speech is dot crawl?
Dot crawl is a noun.

Words near dot crawl in the dictionary

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  2. dot connecting
  3. dot connection
  4. dot connector
  5. dot connectors
  6. dot crawl
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  8. dot dot dots
  9. dot dot slash
  10. dot down
  11. dot Indian

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