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Pronunciation / Transliteration: blitter
"Le blitter accélère le déplacement des blocs graphiques."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A dedicated electronic circuit or software routine used in computer graphics to rapidly transfer, combine, or copy blocks of data pixels onto a display memory.
"The classic 16-bit home computer relied heavily on its custom blitter chip to render smooth sprite animations." - 2
A specific microprocessor unit or coprocessor instruction optimized for high-speed bitmap manipulation.
"By offloading window scrolling tasks to the blitter, the central processor was freed up for game logic."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the computing term 'bitblt' (bit block transfer), coined in the 1970s at Xerox PARC. The suffix '-er' was added to denote a hardware component or software routine that executes these rapid memory block operations.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Blitter" is said worldwide
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blitter
Transliteration: blitter
"Le blitter accélère le déplacement des blocs graphiques."
Blitter
Transliteration: Blitter
"Der Blitter ist ein spezialisierter Prozessor für Grafikdaten."
blitter
Transliteration: blitter
"Il blitter gestisce il trasferimento rapido dei pixel."
blitter
Transliteration: blitter
"El blitter se encarga de mover bloques de memoria gráfica."
blitter
Transliteration: blitter
"O blitter acelera a renderização de gráficos 2D."
ब्लिटर
Transliteration: blitara
"ब्लिटर कंप्यूटर ग्राफिक्स में डेटा ट्रांसफर को तेज करता है।"
位块传输器
Transliteration: wèi kuài zhuānshù qì
"该计算机使用专门的位块传输器来加速游戏图形。"
블리터
Transliteration: beulliteo
"블리터 칩은 비트맵 그래픽 처리를 빠르게 수행합니다."
ブリッター
Transliteration: burittā
"ブリッター回路により高速な画面描画が可能になります。"
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