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1.
an image whose individual pixels can be controlled by changing the value of its stored bit (1 is on, 0 is off; in colour displays, more than one bit is used to provide control for the three colours-Red, Green, Blue) In Windows, every icon picture is stored as a small bitmap image.





2.
binary representation in which each bit or set of bits corresponds to some object (image, font, etc.) or condition



3.
a file format for storing images in which data in the file represents the value of each pixel
 

 

 

 
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