Render

Rendering means a lot of different things in software, but the theme is: something gets painted or drawn on a screen. In frontend development, you’ll hear rendering referring to when a UI element actually gets painted on the screen (“when you click this button, we want to render a dropdown”). In 3D graphics, rendering is the process of creating photorealistic images from a 3D model. And in video, you might hear someone use render to mean processing data from cameras into digital video.