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Term: Blooming

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Term: Blooming

Definition:
An overflow behavior of an individual sensor element in a sensor array caused by excessive light, that manifests itself in a finished image file as a relatively large blush (or bloom) of light from the effected pixel into neighboring ones.
Category:
Image
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