Definitions
(computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot)
Word origin
pix (“pictures”), + el(ement); often taken to be a blend of “picture” and “element”. The ⟨x⟩ stems from the abbreviation pics being sometimes also written as pix, which has been in use since the 1880s. First attested in 1965.
Used in a sentence
“In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.”
“Whether he's pixeling for cellphones or PCs, here is one artist who has a unique and imaginative vision.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Tiny screen dot”5 letters
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