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palette swapping

palette swapping is the present participle and gerund of palette swap.

Meaning of palette swap

Verb

palette swap (third-person singular simple present palette swaps, present participle palette swapping, simple past and past participle palette swapped)

  1. To change the color palette used to render a palettized image.
    • While there's a decent variety of enemy types in the game, those same enemies also tend to get palette swapped as the game progresses.2007 April, GameAxis Unwired

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Questions about palette swapping

What is palette swapping the present participle and gerund of?
Palette swapping is the present participle and gerund of palette swap.

Words near palette swapping in the dictionary

  1. palette
  2. palette knife
  3. palette knives
  4. palette swap
  5. palette swapped
  6. palette swapping
  7. palette swaps
  8. palette window
  9. palette windows
  10. paletted
  11. palettelike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palette swapping (page history and authors); palette swap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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