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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One million pixels.
 
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- noun   One million 
pixels , used as a unit of resolution ofdigital cameras . - adjective Having a resolution of the specified number of megapixels.
 
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Examples
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A megapixel is a measurement of a camera's resolution.
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Marc your comment on 6 or 7 megapixel is over rated.
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A megapixel is a unit of measurement for the resolution of digital cameras.
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A anonymous source for the website insists that both the Touch and the Nano will gain cameras, though aspects such as megapixel ratings or support for autofocus and flash remain uncertain.
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A anonymous source for the website insists that both the Touch and the Nano will gain cameras, though aspects such as megapixel ratings or support for autofocus and flash remain uncertain.
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The best camera to cater to self-pic-takers is the 16.1 megapixel Samsung MV800.
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Its built-in camera has resolution of less than one megapixel.
A Tablet Children Can Grow Into Katherine Boehret 2011
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It gives you a full 8.1 megapixel high resolution of photography, assisted by auto focus, face recognition, image stabilization, red-eye reduction and Xenon flash module.
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This is technology easily built by anyone with a few hundred U.S. dollars (mostly for the two 8+ megapixel cameras), and there is no reasonable way to stop it.
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Its cameras take mediocre still photos and Apple won't even reveal their megapixel ratings.
iPad 2: Thin, Not Picture Perfect Walter S. Mossberg 2011
 
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