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BMP

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:36 pm

The standard bit-mapped graphics format used in the Windows environment. By convention, graphics files in the BMP format end with a.BMP extension.

BMP files store graphics in a format called device-independent bitmap (DIB).

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