Word.ws English Dictionary

viewport

Syllables: view·port/ˈvjuːpɔː(ɹ)t/

viewport noun: a viewing window.

viewport: a viewing window
Image: Simulo, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

viewport (plural viewports)

  1. A viewing window.
    • acrylic plastic viewports in pressure vessels for human occupancy
  2. A typically rectangular region representing the range or area currently visible (within a window, screen, etc.).
    • Dragging the scroll-bar changes which part of the picture is visible within the viewport.

Verb

viewport (third-person singular simple present viewports, present participle viewporting, simple past and past participle viewported)

  1. (transitive) To clip (an image or region) so that it fits in a viewport.
    • Some general ideas on clipping, viewporting, and windowing can be found in Rogers and Adams.1979, Tutorial: Computer Graphics, page 80
    • Viewporting is an operation that takes the portion of the picture that has been mapped into the square region delimited by -1,+1,-1,+1 and further maps it into a rectangular subregion of the screen (a viewport).1980, MTS, the Michigan Terminal System, volume 17, page 42

Forms of viewport

Noun
pluralviewports
Verb
third-person singular presentviewports
present participleviewporting
past participleviewported
pastviewported

Origin of viewport

From view + port.

Words that rhyme with viewport

Questions about viewport

What does viewport mean?
Viewport means a viewing window.
What part of speech is viewport?
Viewport can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce viewport?
Viewport is pronounced /ˈvjuːpɔː(ɹ)t/.
What is the plural of viewport?
The plural of viewport is viewports.

Words near viewport in the dictionary

  1. viewpointed
  2. viewpointless
  3. viewpoints
  4. viewpoints framework
  5. viewpoints frameworks
  6. viewport
  7. viewported
  8. viewporting
  9. viewports
  10. viewquake
  11. viewquakes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: viewport (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-uk-viewport.ogg.

Cite this entry: “viewport.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/viewport. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.