🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

ブリッター

Pronunciation / Transliteration: burittā

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Blitter/ˈblɪt.ər/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"ブリッター回路により高速な画面描画が可能になります。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A dedicated electronic circuit or software routine used in computer graphics to rapidly transfer, combine, or copy blocks of data pixels onto a display memory.

    "The classic 16-bit home computer relied heavily on its custom blitter chip to render smooth sprite animations."
  2. 2

    A specific microprocessor unit or coprocessor instruction optimized for high-speed bitmap manipulation.

    "By offloading window scrolling tasks to the blitter, the central processor was freed up for game logic."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the computing term 'bitblt' (bit block transfer), coined in the 1970s at Xerox PARC. The suffix '-er' was added to denote a hardware component or software routine that executes these rapid memory block operations.

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