Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
RASTERIZE
rasterize
(verb) convert (an image) into pixels
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
rasterize (third-person singular simple present rasterizes, present participle rasterizing, simple past and past participle rasterized)
(transitive, computing) To convert (an image) into a grid of points, such as a bitmap, for display or printing.
Coordinate term: vectorize
Source: Wiktionary
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