blitter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"Not only is the Amiga blitter fully integrated with and supported by the system as a whole, it also has access to its own direct memory channel […]"
"Using the hardware blitter to move bitmaps from VRAM to VRAM is much faster than moving them from system memory to VRAM."

Etymology tree English blit Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English blitter From blit + -er.

blitters (plural)

bob shadebob

bog-blitter

bog-blitter

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What does blitter mean?

A software or hardware mechanism that blits.

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