Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Bitmap
any graphical representation displayed on a computer monitor that is comprised of pixels or dots. Every pixel is made up of bits of data, each of which helps to define the overall color and shade of the graphic when translated into an image by the computer and display monitor. In monochrome monitors, one bit represents a single pixel. Bitmaps come in a variety of file formats such as GIF, JPEG, and TIFF.
