voxel

See also: Voxel

English

Etymology

Blend of volumetric +‎ pixel.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒk.səl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑk.səl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔk.səl/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒksəl
• Hyphenation: vo‧xel

Noun

voxel (plural voxels)

1. (computer graphics) The three-dimensional analogue of a pixel; a volume element representing some numerical quantity, such as the colour, of a point in three-dimensional space, used in the visualisation and analysis of three-dimensional (especially scientific and medical) data.

Derived terms

• voxelscape

Translations

3D analogue of pixel

• Catalan: vòxel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體素 / 体素 (zh)

• Czech: voxel (cs) m
• Finnish: vokseli (fi)
• French: voxel (fr) m
• Georgian: ვოქსელი (vokseli)
• German: Voxel (de) m
• Japanese: ボクセル (bokuseru)
• Korean: 복셀 (boksel)
• Latvian: voxelis
• Lithuanian: voxelis
• Polish: woksel
• Portuguese: voxel (pt) m
• Russian: воксель (ru) (vokselʹ), воксел (ru) (voksel)
• Spanish: vóxel (es) m
• Swedish: voxel c
• Thai: ว็อกเซล
• Turkish: voxel
• Ukrainian: воксель (vokselʹ)

See also

• lignel
• pixel
• pointel
• surfel
• texel
• triangle

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English voxel.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔk.sew/ [ˈvɔk.seʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.ksɛl/ [ˈvɔ.ksɛɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.ksɛl/ [ˈvɔ.ksɛɫ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.ksɛl/ [ˈbɔ.ksɛɫ]

Noun

voxel m (plural voxels)

1. (computer graphics) voxel

Further reading

• “voxel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026