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blitter

(ˈblɪtə)
n
a circuit that transfers large amounts of data within a computer's memory
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Blitter's Plonja, winner of the first two races in the series bids to end with a third win, while Detroit, winner of Wathba Stud farm Cup V and Shrek OA, winner of the IX race are part of the 10-strong field.
Software and hardware innovation structures such as sprites, blitter objects, and certain aspects of direct memory access were all created because of the intense graphics requirements for games.
Van Blitters Wijk, "Grafting PMMA on Hydroxyapatite powder particles using isocyanato ethyl methacrylate", [Abstract], in Transactions of 5th world Biomaterials Congress, Toronto, 663-678 (1996).
Abu Dhabi Blitters Plonja scored her second win in successive starts in the Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival's Wathba Stud Farm Cup II at the Duindigt racecourse in the Netherlands on Sunday.