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A Dictionary of the Internet | 2001 | | Copyright

pixel Abbreviation for picture element. A pixel is a single point on a visual display device such as a monitor. Graphics devices display pictures which can consist of thousands of pixels arranged in rows and columns. A variety of colours are displayed using pixels. For example, in 8-bit colour mode, a colour monitor uses 8 bits for each pixel, with each integer that can be formed from 8 bits being assigned a colour; this means that 256 colours can be displayed.

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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

pixel
1.. A picture element. Commonly the smallest component of a multispectral image as determined by a single optic fibre.

2.. In remote sensing, a single sample of data in an image. A pixel has a spatial attribute corresponding to its location within the image and the area of ground represented, and a spectral attribute corresponding to the intensity of a particular wavelength. See also PIXEL COLOUR.

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A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | | Copyright

pixel (pel) Derived from picture element. One of the elements in an array that is holding pictorial information. It contains data representing either directly or indirectly the brightness and possibly color of a small region of the image. See also digital image.

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pixel

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

pixel An individual element in an array which makes up an electronic image, as produced, for example, by a charge-coupled device. The size of the pixels in a detector governs its resolution. The word is a contraction of ‘picture element’.

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

pix·el / ˈpiksəl/ • n. Electr. a minute area of illumination on a display screen, one of many from which an image is composed.

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A Dictionary of Nursing | 2008 | Copyright

pixel (piks-ĕl) n. short for ‘picture element’, the smallest individual component of an electronically produced image. See digital (image).

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

pixel •hassle, Kassel, passel, tassel, vassal •axel, axle •cancel, hansel, Hänsel, Mansell •transaxle •castle, metatarsal, parcel, tarsal •chancel • sandcastle • Newcastle •Bessel, nestle, pestle, redressal, trestle, vessel, wrestle •Edsel • Texel •intercensal, pencil, stencil •pretzel • staysail • mainsail • Wiesel •abyssal, bristle, epistle, gristle, missal, scissel, thistle, whistle •pixel • plimsoll •tinsel, windsail •schnitzel, spritsail •Birtwistle •paradisal, sisal, trysail •apostle, colossal, dossal, fossil, glossal, jostle, throstle •consul, proconsul, tonsil •dorsal, morsel •council, counsel, groundsel •Mosul • fo'c's'le, forecastle •bustle, hustle, muscle, mussel, Russell, rustle, tussle •gunsel • corpuscle •disbursal, dispersal, Purcell, rehearsal, reversal, succursal, tercel, transversal, traversal, universal •Herzl

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pixel (ˈpɪksəl) Computing picture element

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FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "pixel." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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