pictel

English

Etymology

From picture element.

Noun

pictel (plural pictels)

1. (dated, computer graphics) A pixel.
   • 1975, Biosciences Communications (page 284)

     By the time the scan is completed, the ACTA numbers of all the pictels have been computed and are stored in the computer's memory.

   • 1978, Derek Allan Holton, Jennifer Seberry, Combinatorial mathematics: proceedings

     Pseudo-color computer graphics displays identify the color of each pictel by a three-dimensional vector whose nonnegative elements specify the relative intensities of the three primary colors […]

Anagrams

• -leptic