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Bleeding edge
/ˈbliːdɪŋ ɛdʒ/
The situation produced when the image extends beyond the nominal margin.
📖 Definitions of "Bleeding edge"
noun
- 1
The situation produced when the image extends beyond the nominal margin.
- 2
Something too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; the figurative place where such things exist.
"on the bleeding edge of drone technology"
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bleeding edge"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| bleed edgenoun | (printing) An edge where bleed occurs. |
| edgeletnoun | A partial length of edge between parts of an image |
| marginnoun | (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production. |
| vergenoun | An edge or border. |
| edgenoun | An advantage. |
| neatlinenoun | (cartography) The innermost line near the edge of a printed map which separates it from the margin. |
| sidebearingnoun | (typography) The margin of empty space around a glyph in a font, measured from the glyph contour's leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottommost points to the sides of its bounding box |
| edgelnoun | (computer graphics) A pixel in an image that is recognised as the edge of something. |
| outedgenoun | (graph theory) An outgoing edge in a digraph, i.e. one that leaves a particular node. |
| brinknoun | The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge. |
| portholingnoun | (photography) A circular vignette-like defect where the image fades at the borders. |
| line drawn on waternoun | (figurative) Something transient or ephemeral. |
| overscannoun | (television) The additional area around the four edges of a video image, outside of the safe area, that is not normally seen by the viewer. |
| neat linenoun | Alternative form of neatline. [(cartography) The innermost line near the edge of a printed map which separates it from the margin.] |
| sidenoun | A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape. |
| mackie linenoun | (photography) An adjacency or border effect created during development, at the border between areas of high and low densities. |
| offsetverb | (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction. |
| extreme pointnoun | (mathematics) The maximum or minimum of a function. |
| directed edgenoun | (graph theory) An edge of a directed graph. |
| umstrokenoun | (archaic) A boundary line, especially one at the outermost limit; an extreme edge. |
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