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jaggies

jaggies noun: jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.

Noun

jaggies pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.
    • The anti-alias option in image editors helps to eliminate the jaggies.1999, Brent Heslop, David Angell, Rick Darnell, Microsoft Word 2000 Bible
    • Edge antialiasing only works at the edges of primitives, but jaggies can happen also at intersections of polygons.2007, Pulli et al, Mobile 3D Graphics: With OpenGL ES and M3G

jaggies meaning in Tamil

jaggies in Tamil

பிசிறுகள், வாள் பல்லாகவோ இருப்பது

Origin of jaggies

From jaggy or jagged + -ie (“diminutive”) + -s (“plural”).

Questions about jaggies

What does jaggies mean?
Jaggies means jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.
What is jaggies in Tamil?
Jaggies in Tamil is பிசிறுகள், வாள் பல்லாகவோ இருப்பது. See Jaggies meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is jaggies?
Jaggies is a noun.

Words near jaggies in the dictionary

  1. jaggery
  2. jaggheries
  3. jagghery
  4. Jaggi
  5. jaggier
  6. jaggies
  7. jaggiest
  8. jaggily
  9. jagginess
  10. jagging
  11. jagging iron

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