CGI

or cgi

[ see-jee-ahy ]

abbreviation for

, Computers.

1. computer-generated images; computer-generated imagery: digitally created graphics used in movies and other visual media, often in the form of 3D animation: CG.

   The latest movie in the franchise uses more practical effects and less CGI than its predecessors.

2. Common Gateway Interface: a protocol for instructing a server to execute a user-generated script on an interactive website, such as when a user enters a query using an online form and receives information retrieved from a database (often used attributively):

   CGI enhances the utility of a site by enabling user interaction.

   A CGI script allows users of the site to search for information on a particular local physician.

CGI

abbreviation for

1. computer-generated image or imagery
2. common gateway interface

Word History and Origins

Origin of CGI¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

So in the cutting room, we got a plate of a horse and put a CGI guy getting on him.

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It was a hand, it was a puppet, it was half-CGI, but mostly puppetry.

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You think about a movie like that getting made now, they would probably just use a lot of CGI for your costume.

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The result was overly ambitious sequences that were torpedoed by Syfy CGI.

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It also must have diminished significantly the CGI budget, as well as removed an intolerable amount of background noise.

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