bits per inch

1. 1.

   a measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium

   Synonymsbpi

   Broaderdensity

   computer science

Questions about bits per inch

What does bits per inch mean?

bits per inch means "a measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium".

What is another word for bits per inch?

Close synonyms include bpi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bits per inch a common word?

bits per inch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.