Outpaint

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To paint more or better than; to surpass in painting. transitive

    "to outpaint Picasso"

  2. 2
    To extend an image by guessing how it might look beyond its borders; to perform the inverse of a crop (chiefly in the context of AI image models). intransitive, transitive

    "Our system treats this challenge using a generative adversarial network (GAN), a deep learning technique that outpaints the cropped image."

Example

More examples

"Our system treats this challenge using a generative adversarial network (GAN), a deep learning technique that outpaints the cropped image."

Etymology

From out- + paint.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.