framespersecond
nounUK /ˌfreɪmz pɜː ˈsekənd/
US /ˌfreɪmz pɝː ˈsekənd/
Frames per second is how many pictures a screen shows in one second to make things look like they are moving.
The video game runs at sixty frames per second, so it looks very smooth.
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2. A measure of how many individual images a camera captures each second.
The slow-motion camera records at 240 frames per second.
3. A setting in video games that shows how smoothly the game is drawn.
Lowering the graphics helped raise the frames per second.
4. A way to describe the smoothness of a movie or animation.
Old cartoons had a low frames per second, so their movement looked jumpy.