n. A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen. [German, from Latin rāstrum, rake (from the resemblance of the parallel lines to a rake's path); see rēd- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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