How to Use bitmap in a Sentence
bitmap
noun-
The Watchy can display gray-scale fonts and bitmaps up to 200 by 200 pixels.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2021
-
Time can be displayed using either complete fonts or bitmaps for the numerals, as in the Tetris-like face on the lower right.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2021
-
Unlike the original Swyft, the Apple II SwyftCard does not use the bitmap display and appears strictly in 80-column non-proportional text.
—Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
-
Beyond the famous spaceships, X-Wing and TIE Fighter also brought compelling stories set in the Star Wars universe, alongside technical advancements like fully 3D graphics in place of the bitmap sprites of previous titles.
—Alan Bradley, Space.com, 31 Jan. 2026
-
The video chip’s control registers, screen bitmaps, text-screen data, default and custom character sets, sprites, and color information all live in different locations scattered across memory, with some data actually living in separate RAM and ROM chips.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2025
-
Regions of the Commodore 64’s RAM were mapped to things like the system ROMs, video-color memory, and the bitmaps of characters, the latter of which were actually mapped to multiple locations in RAM when accessed by the video hardware.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2025
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'bitmap.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated:
