pixel

CEFRB1

/ˈpɪk.səl/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The smallest dot of color in a digital image or screen.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A unit of measure used in screen displays, resolutions, and similar visual media that represents either linear measure or area.

Examples

  • My phone's screen has a broken pixel.

  • In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.

  2. One of the squares that make up a work of pixel art or a zoomed-in image in a computer.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels.

More examples

In context

  • We have chosen to sample at a 500 KC rate and we define each one of these samples as a picture element or pixel. We have sampled each pixel with 6-bit accuracy which is commensurate with the signal/noise ratio and the data accuracy.

  • Whether he's pixeling for cellphones or PCs, here is one artist who has a unique and imaginative vision.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

Each blank on the computer screen is a tiny dot of colored light.

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Origin

noun

pix (“pictures”), + el(ement); often taken to be a blend of “picture” and “element”. The ⟨x⟩ stems from the abbreviation pics being sometimes also written as pix, which has been in use since the 1880s. First attested in 1965.