- a picture created on a visual display unit where each pixel corresponds to one or more bits in memory, the number of bits per pixel determining the number of available colours
- (transitive) to create a bitmap of
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bitmap /ˈbɪtˌmæp/ n
bit′ map′,
- Computinga piece of text, a drawing, etc., represented, as on a computer display, by the activation of certain dots in a rectangular matrix of dots.
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