Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The basic unit of the composition of an image on a television screen, computer monitor, or similar display.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot)
Etymologies
- 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)
- pix1 + el(ement). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Surrounding the pixel is a trench cut into the polymer that contains air or oil.”
“Every pixel is a silicon mini-capacitor built in layers that collects the electrons.”
“I just wanted to see the fantastic in pixel form, I guess.”
“Do the same for the right side, except determine if the rightmost pixel is to the left of the approximated right margin, and set reapproximateRight, and remove the line whose rightmost pixel is the farthest past the left.”
“That is, take the y coordinate of the leftmost pixel, compute x = Ay + B, and determine if the x-coordinate of the leftmost pixel is greater than x + 50.”
“Remove the line whose leftmost pixel is the farthest past the right of the approximated left margin from the left side array.”
“For the left side, for each line in the left side array, determine if the leftmost pixel is to the right of the approximated left margin by more than some threshold (I chose 50).”
“Since the '70s, plenty of artists have worked in pixel mosaic, but Campbell was more attracted to the the question Harmon was asking: How low resolution can an image or video be before we no longer recognize what's going on?”
“(After all, a stuck pixel is difficult to see when one is viewing static.)”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Brilliant and very interesting talk about moral code and cheating
“Increasing the number of times that the pixel is refreshed can help.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pixel’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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TECH - digital photography
AD converter, AE lock, AF assist lamp, AF servo, aliasing, anti-shake, aperture, aperture priority, artifact, aspect ratio, auto bracketing, autofocus and 106 more...
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portmanteaus
slithy, chortle, mimsy, galumph, maffluent, smog, motel, momentaneous, splisters, swifting, editated, splatter and 73 more...
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billfence's Words
quotidian, flux, sawbuck, horsefeathers, chalcedony, harp, no, fox, tennis, badminton, flue, charm and 186 more...
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snarkout's Words
agenbite, scandent, vulpine, ratel, corvid, magpie, meline, musteline, ecdysiast, waxwing, abecedarian, guillotine and 111 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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katiefallwest's Words
facetious, hallows, snarky, literati, cantankerous, gryphon, esoteric, fortuitous, impetus, ubiquitous, muggle, colour and 144 more...
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born2badored's Words
livid, fnordy, grok, bloopy, bokonon, disinformation, psychometrics, trip hop, acid jazz, bauble, dynamic, constant and 91 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2050 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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aguayo's list
onomatopoeia, palindrome, legume, cacophony, supreme, pontoon, robot, velocity, parallelogram, photography, pixel, instinct
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for our consideration:
blancket, doppelgänger, lisps, mamihlapinatapai, utterly, hipster, detritus, bike, yawn, procrastinate, ☂, woof and 38 more...
Tweets
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born2badored the cat who walks through walls, as I grok it Dec 7, 2006