Video and display definitions

Number

16-bit
24-bit
3-D
32-bit
3DFX
8-bit
8514/A

A

Active-matrix display
AGP
AGP Aperture
Analog monitor
Anti-glare screen
Aperture grille
Artificats
Aspect ratio

B

Bit map
Bitmap font
Bit-mapped graphic
Brightness
Brush
Bump mapping
Burn in

C

Candle
Candelas
Candle Power
Catalyst
Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
Cathode-Ray Tube
CCC
CCFL
Codec
Composite
Computer graphic
Computer picture
Contrast
Contrast ratio
CrossFire
CRT
CSTN

D

Dead pixel
Degauss
Detonators
Digital display
Digital monitor
Digitize
Direct3D
DirectX
Display
Display attribute
Dithering
DivX
DOT pitch
Double-layer SuperTwisted Nematic
DPI
Drift
DSTN
DTS
Dual-scan display
Dualview
DVI

E

EGA
Elf emissions
Enhanced graphics adapter
Eyefinity

F

Fixed-frequency monitor
Flat-panel display
Flat screen
Flicker
Foot candle
FPS
Frame
Frame capture board
Frame rate
Framebuffer
FSTN
Full-motion video
Full-page display
FullScreen

G

Gamma correction
Gas-plasma display
GeForce
Ghosting
Glare screen
GPU
Grabber
Granularity
Graphic
Graphics accelerator card
Graphics controller
Graphics mode

H

HDMI
Hercules
HGA
High contrast
High-persistence phosphor
High resolution
Horizontal scan rate
HPA
HPD

I

IRGB
Intensity bit
Interlacing

J

Jaggies

K
Currently no listings
L

Landscape monitor
LCD
LCD segment
Letterbox
Liquid crystal
Liquid-crystal display
Lo-res.
Low resolution
Luminance

M

MCGA
MDA
Moire
Monitor
Monochrome
Monochrome monitor
Movie
MPC
MPEG
Multifrequency monitor
Multimedia
Multiscanning monitor

N

Nit
Nixie tube
Noninterlaced
NTSC

O

OLED
OpenGL
Output device
Output screen

P

PAL
Paper-white
Passive-matrix display
Persistence
PGA
Phosphor
Pixel
Polygon
POV
PPI
Privacy filter
Projector

Q

QuickTime

R

Radeon
RAMDAC
Raster
Refresh
Refresh rate
Render
Resolution
Response time
Reverse video
RGB
RGB monitor
Rotate

S

S-Video
SCART
Screen
Screen flicker
SGRAM
Shadow mask
Sharpness
Sideband addressing
SLI
Snow
Stutter
Supertwisted nematic
Super Video Graphics Array
SVGA
SXGA
SXGA+

T

T&L
Texel
Text mode
Texture filtering
TFT
TI 34010
TN
Touch screen
Transform and Lighting
Trichromatic
Trinitron
True color

U

USWC
UXGA

V

VDU
Vertical retrace
VESA
VGA
Video
Video accelerator
Video adapter
Video buffer
Video digitizer
Video display page
Video card
Video conferencing
Video memory
Video mode
Video on Demand
Video overlay
Vertical retrace
Video standards
Videotex
Viewable area
Vertical sync signal
VLF
VoD
Voxel

W

WDDM
Widescreen
Windows-based acceleration
Wireframe
WSXGA
WUXGA
WXGA

X

XGA

Y
Currently no listings
Z

Zoom