Bitmaps

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1. Most commonly, bitmaps refers to raster graphics.

2. Also, bitmaps refers to arrays of boolean values, when stored efficiently so that 8 array elements are stored to the byte. They are frequently used to indicate whether an allocation unit is free or used in memory management, file systems and databases.

3. Used to describe the proprietary graphical file format of the Windows and OS/2 bitmap.