Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jaggies

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

Syllables: jag-gies
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.

Informal

Example Sentences

"The anti-alias option in image editors helps to eliminate the jaggies."
"2007, Pulli et al, Mobile 3D Graphics: With OpenGL ES and M3G Edge antialiasing only works at the edges of primitives, but jaggies can happen also at intersections of polygons."

Etymology

From jaggy or jagged + -ie (“diminutive”) + -s (“plural”).

Usage

Informal

Questions

What does jaggies mean?: Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.
Where does jaggies come from?: From jaggy or jagged + -ie (“diminutive”) + -s (“plural”).

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