scan line

A scan line is one line, or row, in a raster scanning pattern, such as a video line on a cathode ray tube (CRT) display of a television or computer. A scan line represents a row of picture elements (pixels) in the image being displayed.The term is used, by analogy, for the representation of a single row of bitmap data in raster graphics. Scan lines are important in representations of image data, because many image file formats have special rules for data at the end of a scan line. For example, there may be a rule that each scan line starts on a particular boundary (such as byte or word; see for example BMP file format). This means that even otherwise compatible raster data may need to be analysed at the level of scan lines in order to convert between formats.
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1. The line produced on a recording medium frame by a single sweep of a scanner. [JP1] 2. Synonym scanning line.

<hardware> A horizontal line of pixels generated by a single horizontal sweep of the beam from a monitor's electron gun. The number of scanlines that make up a frame is the vertical resolution.
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The line produced on a recording medium frame by a single sweep of a scanner. 1/1/80

Ligne tracée sur l'écran d'un appareil enregistreur au cours d'une demi-période de balayage. 1/1/80