vectorize
To convert an image into a vector graphics format.
Verb
- To convert an image into a vector graphics format.
- The raster and vectorized images are displayed on a graphic monitor where the vector data is an active layer and the raster image is a background layer. - 1997, Sergey Ablameyko, An Introduction to Interpretation of...
Coordinate Terms: rasterize
- To convert a program that operates on scalar values into the equivalent program operating on vectors, usually as an optimization step inside the compiler (automatic vectorization).
- The principles on which the Cyber 200 FORTRAN compiler tries to detect which parts of a program can be vectorized are similar to those used in the Cray CFT compiler. - 1987, Ronald H. Perrott, Parallel Programming,...
- To lead selectively a drug to a target.
- […] peculiarities of the CNT structure can be used to vectorize drugs and other chemicals. - 2018, Shyam Mohapatra et al., editors, Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery,...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti Proto-Italic *weɣō Latin vehō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin vectorlbor. English vector Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English vectorize From vector + -ize.