Etymology

mipmap

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Today it means: A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts. Full definition →

Latin multum in parvo
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frommultum in parvo“much in little”
  2. English todaymipmap

From mip (an acronym of Latin multum in parvo (“much in little”), referring to many images in a small space) + map, modelled on bitmap.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.