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paletted

paletted adjective: palettized.

Adjective

paletted (not comparable)

  1. palettized
    • As long as your bitmap is paletted, most programs will reduce the palette down to the fewest colors. However, it may be a good idea to help it along by changing the bit depth to the lowest possible.2004, Ralph Barbagallo, Wireless Game Development in Java with MIDP 2.0, page 304
    • Unfortunately, the Intel 2700G provides no hardware support for compressed paletted textures. If compressed paletted textures are used, they are internally expanded to their uncompressed representation.2008, Oliver Deussen, Daniel Keim, Dietmar Saupe, Vision, modeling, and visualization 2008: proceedings, page 220

Origin of paletted

From palette + -ed.

Questions about paletted

What does paletted mean?
Paletted means palettized.
What part of speech is paletted?
Paletted is an adjective.

Words near paletted in the dictionary

  1. palette swapped
  2. palette swapping
  3. palette swaps
  4. palette window
  5. palette windows
  6. paletted
  7. palettelike
  8. palettes
  9. palettise
  10. palettised
  11. palettises

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