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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The basic unit of the composition of an image on a television screen, computer monitor, or similar display.

Wiktionary

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot)

Etymologies

  1. pix, pictures + el(ement); often taken to be a blend of “picture” and “element”, but this does not account for the x. First attested 1965 (Wiktionary)
  2. pix1 + el(ement). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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‘pixel’ has been looked up 1985 times, loved by 1 person, added to 20 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 14.