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bit depth

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

for indexed-colour images, the number of bits per palette index. For other images, the number of bits per sample in the image. This is the value that appears in the IHDR chunk .
character or expression depth

From Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2001-02-21) | Glossary for this source

Distance between the baseline and bottom edge of the character glyph or expression. Also known as the descent.
depth

From Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2001-02-21) | Glossary for this source

(of a box) The distance from the baseline of the box to the bottom edge of the box.
sample depth

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

number of bits used to represent a sample value. In an indexed-colourPNG image, samples are stored in the palette and thus the sample depth is always 8 by definition of the palette. In other types of PNG image it is the same as the bit depth.
mapping of a range of sample values onto the full range of a sample depth allowed in a PNG image.
sample depth scaling

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

mapping of a range of sample values onto the full range of a sample depth allowed in a PNG image .
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