Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

copperbar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cop-per-bar
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An animated horizontal bar of colour that extends into the overscan area of the display.

Example Sentences

"There a^([sic]) quite a lot of effects you can get with horz.retraces, eg a textmode copperbar (change color #0 with every scanline)"
"Although most cards still support screen-tweaking, you can just forget about copperbars (writing within horizontal retrace fuks up the screen BADLY) and other effex. Same goes for changing the font."
"There was also the (really pretty famous) RSI Demomaker that let u make up your own intros/demos from a load of stock effects (bobs, starfields, copperbars, scrollers etc).. havent been able to find that tho..."

Etymology

From copper + bar, after the "copper" (coprocessor) component of the Commodore Amiga chipset.

Inflected Forms

copperbars (plural)

Questions

What does copperbar mean?: An animated horizontal bar of colour that extends into the overscan area of the display.
Where does copperbar come from?: From copper + bar, after the "copper" (coprocessor) component of the Commodore Amiga chipset.

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