Origin
A memory copy operation is sometimes referred to as a 'block transfer'. This term is sometimes abbreviated as BLT (there's actually a BLT instruction on the PDP-10) and pronounced 'blit'. The term 'blittable' expresses whether it is legal to copy an object using a block transfer.
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