(transitive) To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.

plural of checkerboard

A pattern of squares of alternating colours. / A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.

simple past tense and past participle of checkerboard

present participle of checkerboard

(computer graphics) Synonym of checkerboard rendering

(rare) Red and white chequy used in Croatian coat of arms and flag.

(computer graphics) A rasterization optimization technique where on every pass only a part of the final resolution is rendered (sometimes in a checkerboard pattern) to then be interpolated (spatially and/or temporally), usually in order to increase performance.

The presence, in a matrix, of a checkerboard pattern