A file-format standard for encoding graphical images, both object-oriented and bitmapped. The PICT file format was first used in Macintosh applications, but many PC applications can read the format too. See also bitmapped graphics, object-oriented graphics.
In computing, object-oriented file format used on the Macintosh computer. The format uses Quickdraw and is supported by almost all graphics applications on the Macintosh.
Roman term for a member of the peoples of N Scotland, possibly meaning “painted” (tattooed). Of pre-Celtic origin, and speaking a Celtic language which died out in about the 10th century, the Picts are thought to have inhabited much of England before the arrival of the Celtic Britons. They were united with the Celtic Scots under the rule of Kenneth MacAlpin 844. Their greatest monument is a series of carved stones, whose symbols remain undeciphered.

The file extension that identifies graphic images in the Macintosh PICT format. See also PICT.

A member of a people of the north of Scotland who are first noted in historical records in the late third century and who became amalgamated with the Scots in the mid-eighth century