Interlace: The method of presenting a video display a half picture at a time, showing only every other line at a time. PAL and NTSC video standards for television employs an interlaced signal.

 

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Interlace: The method of presenting a video display a half picture at a time, showing only every other line at a time. PAL and NTSC video standards for television employs an interlaced signal.

Interlaced Scanning: In a television display, interlaced scanning refers to the process of re-assembling a picture from a series of electrical (video) signals. The 'standard' NTSC system uses 525 scanning lines . . . View Full Definition

Noninterlaced Video: Each line is scanned during each total vertical (full) screen refresh. Computer monitors use typically noninterlaced video.

Interlaced Scan: The means by which traditional television picture tubes create images on screen. An interlaced-scanning tube sends information to each pixel in the even-numbered rows of pixels on a screen, . . . View Full Definition

Interlaced Video: TV frames consist of two fields of alternating lines that are scanned onto the picture display unit (e.g., picture tube) in rapid sequence to produce an interlaced video image.

Interlaced Rhyme: In long couplets, especially hexameter lines, sufficient room in the line allows a poet to use rhymes in the middle of the line as well as at the end of each line. Swinburne's 'Hymn to Prose . . . View Full Definition

Quatrain: A four-line stanza, rhyming, abac or abcb (unbounded, or ballad), as in 'sir patrick spence' and samuel taylor coleridge's 'the ryme of the ancient mariner', aabb (a double couplet), abab (i . . . View Full Definition

Rhyme Royal: A stanza of seven ten-syllable lines, rhyming ababbcc, popularized by geoffrey chaucer in troilus and criseyde and the parliament of fowls, and termed 'royal' because his imitator, james i o . . . View Full Definition

Internal Rhyme: Rhymes between a word within a line, often from a medial position (termed also leonine) and one at the end of the line. Gelett burgess' 'an alphabet of famous goops,' rhyming aabbcc in 3-lin . . . View Full Definition

Pas De Chat: step of the cat. The dancer jumps sideways, and while in mid-air, bends both legs up (two retires) bringing the feet up as high as possible, with knees apart. The Dance of the Cygnets from S . . . View Full Definition