On most terminals, hardware-generated characters are displayed as dot matrixes inside rectangular envelopes[…]. The exact manner in which this is done depends on the kind of terminal.

Press the SHIFT and the asterisk (*) keys. An 8 by 16 dot matrix is displayed in the upper left corner of the display.

Dot matrix printers make up a letter in the same manner as a CRT display. The fully formed-character printers (which are also referred to as letter quality printers) are generally slower and more expensive, but they produce higher quality output than dot matrix printers.

As Dudley Simpson's unusual electronic march begins, the first image on view is of a highly detailed dome, a massive Federation city. From the dome's center, a computerized dot matrix representation of a human eye blossoms outward, rapidly revealing dissident Blake's tortured face.

At close range, the painting Georges Seurat's Le Cirque] is like a dot matrix of color: individual reds and blues and yellows perched side by side, giving the illusion of blending from a distance.

I feverishly wrote for Mrs. Comfort first using a notebook, then an old Mac that printed on dot matrix paper (the kind with a series of small holes used for grasping the edges as it printed onto a roll of mint green and white paper).

A dot matrix is a 2-dimensional patterned array, used to represent characters, symbols and images. Every type of modern technology uses dot matrices for display of information, including cell phones, televisions, and printers. They are also used in textiles with sewing, knitting, and weaving.

Jed S., the MIT student who took my poetry class at Wellesley and presented his poems on long scrolls of computer paper, the all-capitals dot matrix lines nearly unreadable.

The earliest reports were typewritten or stippled by a dot-matrix; then smudged, the result of being whipped too quickly from the mouth of an inkjet.

Dot matrix

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Noun