pixel

See also Pixel

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪksəl

Noun

pixel (plural pixels)

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

Synonyms

• pel (rare)

Derived terms

Terms derived from pixel

megapixel peep pixels pixelated, pixellated

pixelation pixelization pixel peeper

subpixel voxel texel

Translations

one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory

• Arabic: بكسل (ar) (bíksil) m
• Belarusian: піксэль (be) (píksel’) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 像素 (cmn) (xiàngsù)

• Czech: pixel (cs) m
• Danish: pixel (da)
• Dutch: pixel (nl)
• Esperanto: rastrumero (eo)
• Finnish: pikseli (fi), kuvapiste (fi)
• French: pixel (fr) m
• German: Pixel (de) n, Bildpunkt (de) m, Bildelement (de) n
• Greek: εικονοστοιχείο (el) (ikonostikhío) n
• Hungarian: képpont (hu)
• Icelandic: díll m, myndeining f, punktur m
• Italian: pixel (it) m

• Japanese: ピクセル (ja) (pikuseru), 画素 (ja) (gaso), 絵素 (ja) (eso)
• Korean: 화소 (ko) (hwaso), 픽셀 (ko) (piksel)
• Malay: piksel (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: piksel (nb) m

  Nynorsk: piksel (nn) m

• Polish: piksel (pl)
• Portuguese: pixel (pt) m
• Russian: пиксель (ru) (píksel') m
• Serbo-Croatian: piksel (sh) m
• Sindhi: عَڪسِل f
• Spanish: píxel (es) m
• Swedish: pixel (sv)
• Ukrainian: піксель (uk) (píksel’) m
• Walloon: picsel

See also

• triangle

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Etymology

From English

Noun

pixel m (plural pixels)

1. (computing) pixel