Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mipmap

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mipmap
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.

verb

To precalculate images for a texture in this manner.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The ability to mipmap floating-point textures would help with the computation of the maximum energy to find the next shooter."

Etymology

From mip (an acronym of Latin multum in parvo (“much in little”), referring to many images in a small space) + map, modelled on bitmap.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: multum in parvo

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

mipmaps (plural) mipmaps (present, singular) mipmapping (participle, present) mipmapped (participle, past) mipmapped (past)

Questions

What does mipmap mean?: A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.
Where does mipmap come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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