Definition of "bit-mapped" []

• Of or relating to the representation of graphic images as bit maps. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We thought the flexibility that would give us in graphics and the things we could do in user interface with bit-mapped graphics was well worth the price."
• "Rosing: Well, the main list that was specifically user interface would be the bit-mapped graphics display and the resolution of approximately 700 pixels across in the horizontal dimension, the mouse, and the doorless disk drives with the eject button rather than an eject handle."
• "Videx even made a display card that would display 132 columns card for the AppleII, but it never made much headway in the computer world (being supplanted by bit-mapped graphics displays, ala Macintosh)."