Graphics interchange format (GIF)

Graphics interchange format (GIF)

A bit-mapped digital image graphics file format suitable for efficiently importing image data into computer files or for transmitting or displaying the formatted image on a computer monitor or printing it out. GIF supports colour and various resolutions. It also includes data compression, making it especially effective for scanned photos.

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graphics interchange format (GIF)

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A bit-mapped digital image graphics file format suitable for efficiently importing image data into computer files or for transmitting or displaying the formatted image on a ...

graphics interchange format (GIF)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A graphics file format (*.GIF) developed by CompuServe (c1987 CIS) that uses LZW compression algorithm and 256 colors to display bitmap images. GIF files are widely used on World ...

graphical interchange format (GIF)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A file-name extension indicating a certain digital image file format suitable for efficiently importing image data into computer files or for transmitting or displaying the ...

graphical interchange format (GIF)

Advertising; Online advertising

A graphical file extension. Most banner advertisements are created in the GIF format. More popular than the JPEG format. GIF89a or animated GIFs are a sequences of standard GIF ...

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Software; Globalization software service

A file format for storing images. GIF files are common on the World Wide Web because they only contain a maximum of 256 colors and are therefore very small.

graphic interchange format (gif)

Software; Video editing

A bit-mapped graphics file format popular for storing lower resolution image data.

nodulose

Natural environment; Coral reefs

With small nodules, knobs or swellings.

fissure

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A deep and narrow depression cutting across the reef front with origins relating to jointing planes in the reef limestone or non-limestone bedrock.

damselfish

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A large family (Pomacentridae) of bony fishes which are abundant and common inhabitants of coral reefs. They possess robust, deep, and laterally compressed bodies. The majority of ...

complementary resources

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A pair of resources for which consumption by the consumer of one resource reduces its requirement for the other.

antennule

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A small antenna, especially the first pair of antennae in crustaceans.

odontophore

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A tooth-bearing structure found in most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which support the radula and radula sac; the term is also applied ...