vector graphics

American  

noun

1. a method of electronically coding graphic images so that they are represented in lines rather than fixed bitmaps, allowing an image, as on a computer display screen, to be rotated or proportionally scaled.

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Example Sentences

Adobe Firefly creates “commercially safe” AI generated images, video, audio and vector graphics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

In the early 1990s it was packaged with CorelDraw, a vector graphics editor, but under a different name: Staccato 555.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2018

"So my goal with Crystals was to make it even easier to be creative, while still allowing creative professionals further edit the designs as vector graphics."

From The Verge • Aug. 7, 2014

By this point, the original demos were re-written into a file format that would contain the fonts, vector graphics, and images – this would be the second file format for the project.

From Forbes • Mar. 13, 2014

Tempest used old-school vector graphics, so the game’s images were created from glowing neon lines drawn against a pitch-black screen.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline