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Framebuffer

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Framebuffer"

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frame buffernoun(computing) Alternative form of framebuffer. [(computing) A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.]
buffernoun(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
video boardnoun(computing) A board that outputs video to a screen; a graphics card.
bufferingnounThe use of a buffer.
compositornounA person who sets type; a typesetter.
graphics processing unitnoun(computer hardware) A specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.
clipboardnounA flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
b-framenoun(signal processing) A compressed video frame which is reconstructed based on its differences from both the previous and the subsequent frame.
video cardnoun(computing) A piece of hardware installed into a personal computer to allow it to send video signals to an external output device such as a monitor or projector.
stencil buffernoun(computer graphics) A per-pixel buffer in graphics hardware, used to limit the area of rendering and to produce various other effects.
block devicenoun(computing, Unix) An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.
capture cardnoun(computer hardware) A circuit board allowing a computer to record video from an external source.
graphics cardnoun(computing) A circuit board that generates and controls the visual display on a computer screen.
monitornoun(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
bucket renderingnoun(computer graphics) The rendering of a graphical scene in a number of portions ("buckets") that can be assigned to different processors to take advantage of parallelism.
superframenoun(computing, telecommunications) A frame (chunk of data) comprising several subframes.
multibufferingnoun(computing) The use of more than one buffer.
bitmapnoun(computing) A series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic image, each pixel being represented as a group of bits.
interframenoun(signal processing) A video frame which is compressed to express only the change from a reference frame.
pagingnoun(computing) A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive.

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  • framebuffermemory
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