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vertical resolution

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vertical resolution

The number of rows, dots or lines from top to bottom on a printed page, display screen or fixed area such as one inch. Contrast with "horizontal resolution," which is the number of elements, dots or columns from left to right.


vertical resolution [′vərd·ə·kəl ‚rez·ə′lü·shən]
(electronics)
The number of distinct horizontal lines, alternately black and white, that can be seen in the reproduced image of a television or facsimile test pattern; it is primarily fixed by the number of horizontal lines used in scanning. Also known as vertical definition.


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The primary advantages of the NPN are high temporal resolution (averaged observations at least hourly), and a vertical resolution of 250 m.
In preliminary tests studying the drying of pastes and mortars, a vertical resolution of 1 mm was found to provide the necessary vertical detail [15] and so a focus of this work was on count variations from changes in horizontal resolution.
The scanning tunneling microscope has reached a horizontal resolution of 2 angstroms and a vertical resolution of a few hundredths of an angstrom, opening up new dimensions in the study of surfaces.
 
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