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Definition: Dithering |
DitheringNoun1. The process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dithering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Dithering A technique used in computer graphics to create additional colors and shades from an existing palette by interspersing pixels of different colours. On a monochrome display, areas of grey are created by varying the proportion of black and white pixels. In color displays, colors and textures are created by varying the proportions of existing colors. The different colours can either be distributed randomly or regularly. The higher the resolution of the display, the smoother the dithered colour will appear to the eye. Dithering is used to create patterns for use as backgrounds, fills and shading, as well as for creating halftones for printing. It is also used in anti-aliasing in order to make jagged lines appear smoother on screen. (1994-11-02). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Electrical Engineering | The technique of adding controlled amounts of noise to a signal to improve overall system loop control, or to smear quantising error in an A/D convertor application. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
On a monochrome display, areas of grey are created by varying the proportion of black and white pixels. In color displays, colors and textures are created by varying the proportions of existing colors. The different colours can either be distributed randomly or regularly. The higher the resolution of the display, the smoother the dithered colour will appear to the eye.
Dithering is used to create patterns for use as backgrounds, fills and shading, as well as for creating halftones for printing. It is also used in anti-aliasing in order to make jagged lines appear smoother on screen.
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Crosswords: Dithering |
| Specialty definitions using "dithering": Animated GIF. (references) |
| "Dithering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 68.42% of the time. "Dithering" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 68.42% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.81% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.26% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.51% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dithering": a dithering idiot. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dithering": hetero-dithering. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dithering | 16 |
non dithering colors | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "dithering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 慌乱. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dithering, støjstabiliseringstilføring, farvesuperposition. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dithering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rasteripisteiden intensiteetti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | juxtaposition. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dithering, Dither, Unruhe (about, agitation, anxiety, concern (at, disorderliness, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, fermentation, fidget, fidgetiness, fretfulness, noise, perturbation, restiveness, restlessness, ruckus, skittishness, trouble, turbulence, unease, uneasiness, unrest, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρωματική αντιπαράθεση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | giustapposizione (apposition, juxtaposition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 당황함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | craayn (ague, shuddering, trembling, tremolo, wobble, wobble of singer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itheringday aplicación de ruido aleatorio. (various references) ditrering, optisk färgblandning. (various references) sarsak (a dithering idiot, clumsy, Dickey, dicky, doddering, doddery, jerky, palsied, rocky, shaky, tottering, tottery), eblek (a dithering idiot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Dithering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diethering, dothiepin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dithering" (pronounced di"thering) |
| 5 | -i" th er i ng | slithering, withering. |
| 4 | -th er i ng | bothering, fathering, feathering, furthering, gathering, grandfathering, mothering, smothering, weathering, Wuthering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, favoring, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, garnering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, whimpering, whispering, wondering, zippering. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-i-i-n-r-t" | |
-2 letters: dieting, dingier, editing, girthed, heiring, herding, ignited, igniter, inditer, inherit, nightie, nitride, righted, tiering. | |
-3 letters: dieing, dinger, dither, dreigh, driegh, engird, engirt, girned, girted, hiding, hieing, hinder, hinged, hinger, hinted, hinter, hiring, ignite, indite, nidget, nighed, nigher, nitrid, reding, rident, riding, ringed, tidier, tiding, tieing, tinder, tineid, tinged, tinier, tiring, trined. | |
-4 letters: deign. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-i-i-n-r-t" | |
+2 letters: disheriting, redshirting. | |
+4 letters: disheartening, disinheriting, pharyngitides. | |
+5 letters: dechlorinating, disenthralling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 74 68 65 72 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. - .... . .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i t h e r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0074 0068 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387586747184758073 |
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