pixel
the smallest element of an image that can be individually processed in a video display system.
Origin of pixel
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How to use pixel in a sentence
They have a lot of pixels on our page, and a lot of pixels on a lot of other publishers’ pages.
Publishers worry Taboola’s SPAC funding could make them more dependent on its ad revenue | Sara Guaglione | February 8, 2021 | DigidayThe speed of pixels moving across your field of vision is different to the speed of the player.
Virtual reality has real problems. Here’s how game developers seek to delete them. | Derek Swinhart | January 21, 2021 | Washington PostIn good light, it uses all of the pixels on the sensor individually.
Watch Samsung announce its new Galaxy S21 smartphones and Galaxy Buds Pro | Stan Horaczek | January 14, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIf you have first-party data by way of pixel or email lists, that’s where I would start.
SMX Overtime: Eternal testing, the key to Facebook Ads success | Amy Bishop | December 21, 2020 | Search Engine LandTo take precise brightness measurements of a star, we would need to be able to keep its center of brightness fixed to the same tiny fraction of a pixel, far finer than the width of a human hair.
My satellite would fit in a small suitcase. | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
I think I would be a drifting pixel in the online dating world right now.
Patton Oswalt Sounds Off On Stand-Up’s Critics and Why Comedians Should Win Oscars | Marlow Stern | December 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTInevitably, this time next year we will see 2,880 x 1,800 pixel screens all over the place.
5 Reasons I Hate My New MacBook Pro: A Geek’s Critique | Jason Stewart | June 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTShe lives in the same house as pixel, our Italian Greyhound, who is something of a celebrity in Oaxaca.
Technical Note: The illustrations were scanned at 400ppi and scaled to 25% by pixel count.
Printers' Marks | William RobertsFor this e-text, Plates were rescaled to 25% by pixel count, while most Figures were rescaled to 33%.
British Dictionary definitions for pixel
/ (ˈpɪksəl) /
any of a number of very small picture elements that make up a picture, as on a visual display unit
Origin of pixel
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for pixel
[ pĭk′səl ]
The most basic unit of an image displayed on a computer or television screen or on a printer. Pixels are generally arranged in rows and columns; a given combination among the pixels of various brightness and color values forms an image.♦ A subpixel is one of three components of a pixel used in the representation of a color image. Each subpixel represents the contribution of a single color-red, green, or blue-to the overall color and brightness of the pixel.
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