high-resolution

Meanings

adjectivehigh-resolution (comparative higher-resolution, superlative highest-resolution)

comparative higher-resolution · superlative highest-resolution · alternative hi-res · alternative high-res

Having a high resolution; for example, having a large number of pixels per unit area.
Costing more than the helicopter it is attached to, this impressive £1 million multi-spectral camera and sensor array picks up a huge range of data above and beyond the high-resolution aerial photography that Sean Leahy and the Network Rail Air Operations team have become known for.
2021 July 14, Gareth Dennis, “#RailNatter... all about Rail Live matters”, in RAIL, number 935, page 35, photo caption
Antonyms: low-resolution

adjectiveHaving a high resolution; for example, having a large number of pixels per unit area.

Opposite

adjectiveproducing images that are sharp and finely detailed

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Chinese Mandarin 高分辨

Finnish erottelukykyinen, erotuskykyinen

French haute résolution

German hochauflösend

Hungarian magas felbontású

Japanese 高解像度, ハイレゾリューション

Māori arinui

Norwegian Bokmål høyoppløselig

Portuguese de alta resolução

Swedish högupplöst

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