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frame-perfect

frame-perfect adjective: of an input, trick etc., performed accurate to the duration of a single frame.

Adjective

frame-perfect (not comparable)

  1. Of an input, trick etc., performed accurate to the duration of a single frame.
    • Immediate decision-making, twitch reactions, tight timings, microtemporal awareness and frame-perfect [4] performance characterize competitive play behaviors in fighting games, first-person shooters, MOBAs and real time strategy games.2018 December, Matt Knutson, “Backtrack, pause, rewind, reset: Queering chrononormativity in gaming”, in Game Studies, volume 18, number 3, →ISSN, pages 1–15
    • It also requires frame-perfect precision in execution, with particular inputs having to coincide with in-game timers and triggers.2019, James Newman, “Wrong Warping, Sequence Breaking, and Running through Code Systemic Contiguity and Narrative Architecture in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Any% Speedrun”, in Journal of...

Forms of frame-perfect

alternative formframe perfect

Questions about frame-perfect

What does frame-perfect mean?
Frame-perfect means of an input, trick etc., performed accurate to the duration of a single frame.
What part of speech is frame-perfect?
Frame-perfect is an adjective.

Words near frame-perfect in the dictionary

  1. frame-fucked
  2. frame-fucking
  3. frame-fucks
  4. frame-lock
  5. frame-locks
  6. frame-perfect
  7. frame-up
  8. frame-ups
  9. framea
  10. frameable
  11. framebuffer

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