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Last site update :
15th April 2008

©Meko Ltd. 2008

The following articles appeared in Display Monitor's "Word of the Week" section. They define certain words or terms used in computer graphics and display technology.

Some of the definitions may be a little dated now, but we leave them as we have been told that they are still useful. (Brief additions as updates were added in July 2006)

To view the definitions, just click on the relevant word:

  Active Matrix (AM/TFT)   LEP
  ALiS   Light Valve
  Alpha-Blending   Light Valve Amplifier (ILA)
  Anisotropic Filtering   Liquid Crystal (LC)
  Anode   MIP Map
  Antialiasing   Moiré
  Aperture Grille   Multi-Domain Vertical Alignment (MVA)
  Beam-Focusing   OLED
  Bi/Tri-Linear Filtering   PALC
  Braun Tube   Plasma Display
  Control Grid   Point Sampling
  Deflection Circuit   Polysilicon
  Deflection Yoke   Radiosity
  Dongle   Ray Tracing
  Dynamic Beam Forming   Saddle-Saddle Yoke
  Dynamic Focus   SED
  Electro-Luminescence (EL)   Shading
  FED   Shadow Mask
  Grating Light Valve (GLV)   SOLED
  High-Field Electro-Luminescents   Super Twisted Nematic (STN/DSTN) LCs
  In-Plane Switching (IPS)   Twisted Nematic (TN) LCs
  LED   Z-Buffer