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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Dpi Dots per inch. A measure of resolution for printers, scanners and displays. Laser printers typically reach 300 DPI, though 600 DPI is becoming more common. Commercial typesetters are usually around 1200 DPI. (1995-01-05). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Census | (Dots Per Inch) A measure of the degree of resolution of any device that provides an image consisting of dots. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dots per inch (often abbreviated in dpi) is a measure of resolution for printed and display media, but more often used for computer-generated media.Simply put, a device capable of n DPI means that this device can produce, on paper or on a screen, dots small enough to fit n of them in an inch (2.54 cm). This can be different from the actual image resolution, since often a pixel on the image is composed of several dots.
Computer monitorss have a resolution of about 72 to 110 dpi. That is, they have 72 pixels per inch, and an image 140 pixels across will occupy about two inches. Television resolution is at most half of that, and usually much lower.
Graphic printers must have a much greater resolution, because the human eye is much better at making out small points on paper. Text can be rendered with good quality at 300 or 600 dpi. Color images need even higher dpi, with professional equipment leveling around 4000 dpi.
The high dpi needed for a printed image poses great problems to digital photographers and artists, who must acquire images in a very high resolution (thousands of pixels), before being able to print them with an acceptable quality. The rapid increase in the megapixel count on digital cameras is driven primarily from this need.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dots per inch."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DPI | English | Data pathing inc. | N/A |
DPI | French | Dialyse péritonéale intermittente | Chemistry, Medicine |
DPI | Italian | Puntini per pollice | Computing, Industry |
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| "Child II" by (c) opheliaCherry Commentary: "This girl is chinese pic 300 dpi." | "Waterplant" by Laszlo Gaal Commentary: "The plant(s) live on the rocks surrounded by water.You can say its a waterplant. Prints good on 360 dpi,cheap paper and cheap inkt.(Its a good photo,the sun was low behind me and no black parts in the photo, prints easy and good." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "DPI" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "DPI" is used about 15 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (plural) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| South Korea | DPI Co. Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dpi | 301 | angelina dpi jolie | 5 |
dpi wisconsin | 235 | dpi nd | 5 |
dpi wi | 66 | scanner dpi | 5 |
dpi nc | 35 | 300 dpi free photo | 4 |
dpi inc | 32 | 200 dpi | 4 |
carolina dpi north | 24 | dpi monitor | 3 |
dpi teleconnect | 21 | 2400 9600 dpi printer | 3 |
300 dpi | 16 | definition dpi | 3 |
dpi.wa.gov.au licensing | 14 | 300 dpi free picture | 3 |
300 dpi free image | 13 | photo dpi | 3 |
wisconsin dpi job | 10 | dpi wis | 3 |
dpi phone service | 8 | dpi pixel | 3 |
content.html dfm dpi dpi.state.wi.us fns | 7 | dpi job teaching wisconsin | 3 |
300 dpi image | 7 | dpi job | 3 |
203 220039 dpi | 7 | dpi people | 3 |
dpi high | 7 | dpi printing | 3 |
printer dpi | 6 | dpi west | 2 |
72 dpi | 6 | 300 dpi image photo | 2 |
dakota dpi north | 6 | dpi image | 2 |
resolution dpi | 6 | dpi job wi | 2 |
dpi phone | 5 | dpi merchant services | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words containing "DPI": codpiece, codpieces, fieldpiece, fieldpieces, handpick, handpicked, handpicking, handpicks, headpiece, headpieces, headpin, headpins, sandpile, sandpiles, sandpiper, sandpipers, sandpit, sandpits, standpipe, standpipes, windpipe, windpipes, woodpile, woodpiles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dip. | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-p" | |
-1 letter: id, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-p" | |
+1 letter: dips, dipt, drip, padi, paid, pied. | |
+2 letters: aphid, biped, bipod, cupid, dippy, dipso, drips, dript, imped, lipid, padis, padri, pardi, pavid, piked, piled, pined, piped, plaid, plied, podia, poind, pride, pried, pudic, pyoid, rapid, redip, riped, sapid, siped, spied, tepid, vapid, wiped. | |
+3 letters: adipic, aliped, aphids, bipeds, bipods, capsid, copied, cupids, cuspid, depict, diaper, diapir, dimple, dimply, diplex, diploe, dipnet, dipody, dipole, dipped, dipper, dipsas, dipsos, dispel, dopier, doping, drippy, duping, elapid, espied, giddap, gimped, gipped, griped, hipped, hispid, impede, impend, isopod, kidnap, kipped, limped, limpid, lipide, lipids, lipoid, lipped, lisped, nipped, opined, opioid, paiked, pained, paired, pallid, pandit, pardie, peined, peised, peptid, perdie, period, picked, piddle, piddly, pidgin, pieced, pigged, pilled, pimped, pinder, pinged, pinked, pinned, pipped, piqued, pished, pissed, pithed, pitied, pitted, placid, plaids, pleiad, ploidy, podite, podium, poinds, poised, pongid, ponied, priced, prided, prides, primed, prised, prized, psocid, pundit, putrid, rapids, redips, redipt, repaid, ripped, salpid, sipped, sliped, sniped, spadix, sparid, spiced, spider, spiked, spiled, spined, spired, spited, stiped, stupid, swiped, tipped, torpid, trepid, tripod, unipod, unpaid, upbind, updive, upgird, upside, upwind, vespid, windup, wisped, yipped, zipped. | |
| 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 50 49 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .--. .. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010000 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D P I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0050 0049 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)385043 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Images: Digital Art 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Company Usage | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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