Display tearing

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe effect of an image on a display appearing to horizontally "tear" in two due to lack of synchronization between the video feed and the display's refresh rate.

Synonyms

screen tearing tearing artifacting screenburn pixel shifting macroblocking jaggies line doubler touchframe split screen scrolling pop-in

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