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Meaning of "video memory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VIDEO MEMORY

video memory play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VIDEO MEMORY

noun
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Video memory is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VIDEO MEMORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Video memory

Video memory is a term generally used in computers to describe a buffer of writable memory, usually some form of RAM, often dual ported RAM. This buffer is dedicated to the sole purpose of holding the picture information that is displayed on screen by the video display circuitry of the computer. In modern 3D graphics cards, there may also be memory dedicated to hold 3D vector data, textures, backbuffers, overlays and GPU programs. Sometimes this takes the form of a Shared Memory Architecture.

Definition of video memory in the English dictionary

The definition of video memory in the dictionary is computer memory used for the processing and displaying of images.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VIDEO MEMORY

video diary
video disc
video disk
video disk player
video entry system
video frequency
video game
video installation
video jockey
video library
video nasty
video piracy
video player
video recorder
video recording
video referee
video rental
video screen
video shop
video surveillance

WORDS THAT END LIKE VIDEO MEMORY

armory
buffer memory
cache memory
collective memory
commit to memory
episodic memory
erasable programmable read only memory
extended memory
long-term memory
main memory
memory
nonvolatile memory
photographic memory
random access memory
read only memory
screen memory
selective memory
semantic memory
short-term memory
virtual memory
working memory

Synonyms and antonyms of video memory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «video memory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VIDEO MEMORY

Find out the translation of video memory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of video memory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «video memory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

显存
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

memoria de vídeo
570 millions of speakers

English

video memory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वीडियो स्मृति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذاكرة الفيديو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

видеопамяти
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

memória de vídeo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভিডিও মেমরি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mémoire vidéo
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ingatan video
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Videospeicher
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ビデオメモリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비디오 메모리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Memori video
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bộ nhớ video
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வீடியோ நினைவகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्हिडिओ मेमरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Video belleği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

memoria video
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pamięć wideo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відеопам´яті
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

memorie video
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μνήμη βίντεο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

video geheue
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

videominne
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

videominne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of video memory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VIDEO MEMORY»

The term «video memory» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.730 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VIDEO MEMORY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about video memory

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIDEO MEMORY»

Discover the use of video memory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to video memory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mastering Windows XP Home Edition
HOW MUCH VIDEO MEMORY DO YOU NEED? The number of colors and resolution your graphics card can display depends on the amount of memory it contains. Basically, the more memory the graphics card has, the higher the resolution ...
Guy Hart-Davis, 2006
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PCs For Dummies
Memory used by your PC's video system is known as video memory. Specifically, memory chips live on the video adapter card. Those memory chips are used specifically for the computer's video output and help you see higher resolutions, ...
Dan Gookin, 2011
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Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming
Video memory is scarce because it is the memory available on the graphics card. Keep in mind that a graphics card must allocate, among other structures, the double-buffered frame buffer, the Z-buffer, texture maps, and so on. So, we can use ...
Daniel Sánchez-Crespo Dalmau, 2004
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Video Data Management and Information Retrieval
DISCLOSURE: The wearer can disclose a video memory from a certain real- world object. In this mode, the “Run out” function and the “Emit” function are sequentially operated. Using additional operation tags, the wearer can treat a video ...
Sagarmay Deb, 2005
5
Upgrading and Repairing Laptops
S. Note that these components were valid as of mid-2003, and will change quickly. In addition to the type of video accelerator used, notebook users should also pay attention to the amount of video memory installed. Video memory is a special ...
Scott Mueller, 2004
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A+ Guide to Managing & Maintaining Your PC
To see the video memory available to Windows, click Adjust Screen Resolution in the Appearance and Personalization group in Control Panel. In the Screen Resolution window, click Advanced settings. The video properties box appears.
Jean Andrews, 2013
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Maximum PC
This trick allows games and video playback to run dramatically faster and eliminates the tearing that occurs when the image in video memory changes while the beam is active (see Figure 1). Other uses for off-screen memory include overlays, ...
8
Buying a Computer For Dummies
Video. Memory. Memory is used in computers in two places. First, there's main memory, where all the “action” takes place. Second, there's video memory, which is used to help the computer display graphics. Both main and video memory ...
Sandra Geisler, 2005
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CompTIA A+ 2009 In Depth
Older video cards used older video memory technologies, including VRAM ( video RAM), SGRAM (synchronous graphics RAM), WRAM (window RAM), MultiBank DRAM (MDRAM), 3-D RAM, Direct RDRAM (DRDRAM), and DDR. Most video ...
Jean Ph.D. Andrews, 2010
10
A+ Guide to Hardware: Managing, Maintaining and Troubleshooting
VIDEO MEMORY AND WINDOWS VISTA Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions offer the Aero user interface (also called Aero glass), which has a 3D appearance. The hardware must qualify for Aero glass ...
Jean Andrews, 2009

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIDEO MEMORY»

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Why Nvidia's GTX 970 slows down when using more than 3.5GB …
When a game needs less than 3.5GB of video memory per draw command then it will only access the first partition, and 3rd party applications that measure ... «PC Gamer, Jan 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Video memory [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/video-memory>. Apr 2024 ».
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