Raster Definition

răstər
noun
The pattern of illuminated horizontal scanning lines formed on a picture tube when no signal is being received.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Raster

Noun

Singular:
raster
Plural:
rasters

Origin of Raster

  • German from Latin rāstrum rake (from the resemblance of the parallel lines to a rake's path) rēd- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From German Raster, from Latin raster, from rastrum (“a rake"), from verb radere (“to scrape").

    From Wiktionary

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