PITCH
The quality of a sound expressed as its highness or lowness.
PIXEL
One of the small elements that makes up the video display. The smallest addressable
element in the video display.
PLAYFIELD
One of the basic elements in Amiga graphics; background for all other display elements.
PLAYFIELD OBJECT
Subsection of a playfield that is used in playfield animation.
PLAYFIELD ANIMATION
See bit-plane animation.
POINTER REGISTER
Register that is continuously incremented to point to a series of memory locations.
POLARITY
True or false state of a bit.
POTENTIOMETER
An electrical analog device used to adjust some variable value.
PRIMITIVES
Amiga graphics, text, and animation library functions.
QUANTIZATION NOISE
Audio noise introduced by round-off errors when you are trying to reproduce a signal by
approximation.
RAM
Random access (volatile) memory.
RASTER
The area in memory that completely defines a bit-map display.
READ-ONLY
Describes a register or memory area that can be read but not written.
RESOLUTION
On a video display, the number of pixels that can be displayed in the horizontal and
vertical directions.
ROM
See read-only memory.
SAMPLE
One of the segments of the time axis of a waveform.
SAMPLING RATE
The number of samples played per second.
SAMPLING PERIOD
The value that determines how many clock cycles it takes to play one data sample.
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