framerate

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A form of frame rate — The measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce unique consecutive images called frames, most often expressed in frames per second (often abbreviated "fps") or, equivalently, hertz (Hz).

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Meanings

nounframerate (countable and uncountable, plural framerates)

plural framerates

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of frame rate.

    Higher framerates can increase this bound, since the maximum delay between two cameras capturing an image will decrease.

    2008, Christian Bischof, Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications, page 77
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    Game developers are demanding higher fill rates so they can push resolutions to 1024x768, create larger polygon-count models, and add more special effects without slowing framerates to a crawl.

    1999 January, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 1

    The worst I saw was EA's Need for Speed: Most Wanted. This astounded me because of the ways it was poor - framerate was low, pauses were evident, and the render and model quality, apart from what looked superficially like high dynamic range lighting effects, were not significantly different to what is already readily achievable on Xbox.

    2005 May 20, Keith Stuart, quoting David Braben, “The E3 diaries, day three”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2014
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