voxel

American  

[vahk-suhl] / ˈvɑk səl /

noun

1. Digital Technology. any one of the set of cubic elements that together make up a 3D graphic simulation or representation.

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Example Sentences

This voxel geometry resembles individual egg cartons, stacked end to end, and appears to not affect the structure's overall wave-dissipating power.

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The team is currently fabricating cement voxel structures and assembling them into a lab-scale architected reef, which they will test under various wave conditions.

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They envision that the voxel design could be modular, and scalable to any desired size, and easy to transport and install in various offshore locations.

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"It's fantastic. The whole thing about MRI is how big is the little volumetric unit, the voxel, the three-dimensional pixel that you're recording from. That's the only thing that matters."

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With the higher spatial resolution, neuroscientists will be able to home in on the activity of something on the order of 850 individual neurons within a single voxel -- a 3D pixel -- instead of the 600,000 recorded with standard hospital MRIs, said Silvia Bunge, a UC Berkeley professor of psychology who is one of the first to use the NexGen 7T to conduct research on a human brain.

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