English

Noun

jaggies pl ‎(plural only)

1. (computer graphics, informal) Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.
   • 1999, Brent Heslop, David Angell, Rick Darnell, Microsoft Word 2000 Bible

     The anti-alias option in image editors helps to eliminate the jaggies.

   • 2007, Pulli et al, Mobile 3D Graphics: With OpenGL ES and M3G

     Edge antialiasing only works at the edges of primitives, but jaggies can happen also at intersections of polygons.