anti-aliasing?
Why didn't you just put that into google (or another search engine)?
http://www.widearea.co.uk/designer/anti.html
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You know when you zoom in close to a picture and you can see the jagged lines and pixel gaps that are apparently straight and smooth lines? Anti-aliasing smoothens those gaps and jagged lines, so the image looks smoother and crisper.