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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. 1

    The situation produced when the image extends beyond the nominal margin.

  2. 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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WordDefinition
bleed edgenoun(printing) An edge where bleed occurs.
edgeletnounA partial length of edge between parts of an image
marginnoun(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
vergenounAn edge or border.
edgenounAn 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.
brinknounThe 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 linenounAlternative form of neatline. [(cartography) The innermost line near the edge of a printed map which separates it from the margin.]
sidenounA 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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