(also Bit Blit or just Blit) An abreviation for "Bitwise Block Transfer," pronounced "BIT-blit." It just a fancy term for the process used to copy a rectangular image into the middle of the screen or another bitmap in memory.
Stands for bit block transfer, a hardware-based process that moves a rectangular block of bits from main memory into display memory.
BIT BLock Transfer, a bit string move, usually referring to moving the bits that represent an image from memory to display. Also known as a "blit".
A VGA video operation which copies an array of values to a rectangular region in video RAM.
Bit- Bl ock ransfer is the procedure of copying, combining and reshaping bitmaps ("Moving a playing card in the standard Microsoft Windows game Solitaire is known as a memory-to-screen ... BitBlt"). [ PC MAGAZINE, July 1994, p. 177
Bit Block Transfer. A function in the Windows API that allows you to transfer a block of bits (A bitmap, for example) from one location to another on the screen. This can be used to move sprites around a screen, a prerequisite for making many types of games.