The smallest addressable unit on a display screen. The higher the pixel resolution (the more rows and columns of pixels), the more information can be displayed. Source: TechWeb.com

The image displayed on monitors or in a graphic produced by a scanner or paint program is made up lots of dots called pixels. Once you scan an image, it becomes digitized-made up of hundreds of thousands of pixels. Pixels are nothing more than very tiny colored squares that you can see if you increase the magnification of any image to its maximum: More pixels means higher resolution, which creates better image quality because you end up with more realistic representations of color, better gradations of both individual colors and gray tones, and crisper images in general. NOTE: Pixels per inch (ppi) is often (although mistakenly) used interchangeably with dots per inch (dpi). Dots per inch (dpi) is a measurement describing the way an image is printed, scanned, or displayed on your monitor. For instance, you may scan an image at 300 dpi, print a 300 dpi image at 600 dpi, view it on your monitor at 72 dpi, but unless you resample it in Photoshop, the image will always have a resolution of 300 ppi. The most important thing to understand about resolution is the relationship between an image's resolution (ppi) and an image's print size (actual width and height).

Points of light on a computer screen used to create graphic images.

the smallest dot available to display on a monitor. The dot on this i is one pixel in size.

a single point in a graphics display that is a triad of colored dots: red, blue, green, placed close together so that your eye sees it as one image.

individual dot; various combinations of dots are used to create characters and graphics.

The smallest unit of an image. Each pixel is a small square dot with an assigned color. On the internet, all images are displayed at 72 DPI (dots per inch), which is 72 pixels per inch. Pixels are also used to describe the display size of an image. A 468x60 banner is 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels tall.

The picture elements that make up an image, similar to grains in a photograph or dots in a half-tone. Each pixel can represent a number of different shades or colors, depending upon how much storage space is allocated for it. A typical digital photo is made up of thousands of tiny pixels.

The smallest unit of color on a screen. The image displayed on a monitor is made up of thousands of pixels, each capable of displaying different colors depending on the color depth.

The smallest unit of a digitally displayed image. The memory required by an image consisting of pixels is determined by the size of the image, its resolution, the number of pixels per unit of area, and the number of colors to be displayed.

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A tiny element of a picture that holds information for color.

a unit of digital video and digital images. While most computer monitors and media employ square pixels, NTSC video like the kind found on broadcast television uses “tall” pixels, which are of a rectangular shape.

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) ( 2003-11-10) information stored for a single grid point in an image. A pixel consists of (or points to) a sequence of samples from all channels . The complete image is a rectangular array of pixels.

The smallest subdivision or unit of information in an image composed of discrete elements. Also, each individual cell of a mathematical grid. The term is not valid for continuous tone images, unless referring to the smallest particle of silver salt on a photograph.

A square (display point) on a graphics screen that has a horizontal and vertical position and can be accessed as a separate entity.

The smallest resolvable dot in an image display.

The smallest piece of information that can be displayed on a computer monitor. It is represented by a numerical code within the computer and displayed on the monitor as a dot of a specific color or intensity. An image is composed of a large array of pixels. The pixel size in a high-end computer monitor’s screen (a 1K x 1K monitor) is approximately 0.28 mm x 0.28 mm. The pixel size for diagnostic teleradiology monitors (2K x 2K) is much smaller. Other factors being equal, the smaller the pixel size, the greater the resolution of the image.

The smallest definable element of a digitized graphic image (300 dpi).

Digital sample of the color intensity values of a picture at a given point.

a portion of a digitally-encoded image

Pic ture el ement, or dot of colour that makes up a digital photograph, or a digital screen.

The individual values within a digitized image that describe the image color and intensity (typically a red, blue, green value) at a specific point within the image

The digital representation of the smallest area of a television picture, appearing as a tiny dot on the television screen. In a full color image, each pixel contains three components - a combination of red, green and blue signals - reflecting the trichromatic nature of human vision. The number of pixels in a complete picture differs from one system to another; the more pixels, the greater the resolution.

is defined as the smallest discrete component of a digital image.

A small unit of color in a digital image.

A pixel is a single dot on a computer monitor. Depending on the bit depth of a computer monitor, each pixel can be displayed as anywhere from two to millions of colors. Each pixel is assigned a tonal value (black, white, shades of gray or color), which is represented in binary code (zeros and ones).

A single dot in a digital image or computer display monitor. The more pixels in an image, the higher the resolution. (See: Resolution)

Measurement of "dots per inch". The higher the number of pixels, the better the resolution. Expanded/Alternate Definition(s) n : (computer science) the smallest discrete element of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a single-colored dot); "the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution"

short for picture elements; the number of individual units that make up a graphic image displayed on a monitor. They are measured in two dimensions, width and height. Pixels are analogous to the dpi (dots per square inch) of a printed image.

A pixel (px) is a unit of measurement. A pixel is roughly equal to 0.014in and an inch is roughly equal to 72px. Pixels are used for most of the measuring in HTML. Look closely for the picture below, which measures 1px by 1px: This next picture measure 72px by 72px (or 1in)

the smallest element of a display that can be assigned independent color and intensity. The area of finest detail that can be reproduced on the recording medium. One dot on the computer screen.

The individual picture elements that form the smallest visible and manipulable part of a colour image on a computer.

the small picture elements that make up a digital photograph.

the smallest unique point of a digital video image. In digital video, each picture is made up of thousand of pixels, specified by position, chrominance, and luminance information.

The individual picture elements that form an image.

The smallest area of TV picture defined by TV standard; usually refers to discrete value on a sampling grid; a color pixel is a triplet of values representing either red, green and blue intensity, or luminance and two color-difference intensity values.

The smallest distinct point on a computer display is called a pixel.

Term standing for Pic(x)ture Element. This is the most basic measurement for expressing the amount of information stored in a digital file. (The equivalent term used in printing is Dots Per Inch (DPI)) . A document 10 inches across scanned at 600 DPI requires 6000 pixels.

An element of surface resulting from subdividing an image into the smallest identically shaped figures that give information about the location, intensity and perhaps color of the source, but such that no smaller subdivision will provide more information.

The smallest unit of a RASTER graphic. Can be thought of as a single "tile," as in a tile mosaic. A large collection of these tiles makes up the image. One pixel can be only one color.

Measure of resolution of a picture. Example: 1024 x 760 pixels is the resolution of a typical SVGA monitor.

A small area defined on a computer screen. The on-screen image is made up of thousands of individually coloured pixels.

A cluster of colored dots that combine to form images on the computer screen.

The smallest unit of a digital image. Generally, the more pixels a camera has, the higher resolution it offers.

The smallest unit of measurement on a computer screen. The number of pixels on the display is determined by the user's chosen screen resolution.

The smallest element of the computer or television display on the raster scale.

The smallest screen graphics unit addressable in a particular display mode. It is a square whose size depends on the display mode.

A unit of measure that refers to a single dot (or point of light) on a monitor. Standard banner sizes include 468x60 pixels, 125x125 pixels, and more. Follow these links for a complete list of the CASIE standard sizes, and the CCB-supported sizes.

any of the minute areas of uniform illumination of which an image on a display                  screen is composed repetition            the act or instance of being repeated

icture lement] An addressable point on a display screen to which light can be directed under program control.

Acronym for Pic ture El ement. A pixel is a single point in a graphic image. Computer monitors display images by dividing the screen into thousands of pixels arranged in rows and columns. The pixels are so close together that they appear connected. The number of bits used to represent each pixel determines how many colors can be displayed. For example, in 8-bit color mode, the monitor uses 8 bits for each pixel, making it possible to display 2 to the 8th power (256) different colors. See bit.

Digital images and graphics are made up of pixels. A pixel is simply the technical term for the very tiny colored square dots that make up a digital image. You usually cannot see the individual pixels unless you enlarge the image using a photo editing program. The more pixels an image contains the higher the resolution. Higher resolution images look crisper, sharper, and have more accurate colors and tones.

noun: a single dot of color, the smallest unit of measure for digital images

A single dot of light on a computer monitor screen is a pixel, the unit by which all web graphics are measured. If monitor's screen resolution is "800 x 600", it displays 800 pixels left-to-right and 600 pixels top-to-bottom. Monitor screens vary in both size and resolution, so there can be no fixed relationship between "dots" and "inches" - like the "DPI" measurement common in print.

A single light-sensitive cell in a CCD image sensor. Each CCD has hundreds of thousands of pixels. The term is also used of a single coloured dot in a computer stored image.

A pixel is the smallest part of a displayed or printed image.

A single point of color in a digitized image.

A single dot in the image, representing the current amount of ground resolution.

A pixel is a fundamental unit of measurement in a raster-based picture or on a monitor. Both raster pictures and monitors are defined by rows of dots that can be individually assigned a color. These dots are called pixels.

All computer screen images are made up of many thousands of coloured dots, called pixels, to form the picture. The more pixels that form an image, the better its quality.

The basic unit of the composition of an image on a television screen, computer monitor, or similar display.

The basic element for display. In imaging, picture size is based on the number of pixels it contains. The number of pixels being drawn onto the monitor screen dictate the resolution and definition of the pixel. Each pixel has a colour value, which is expressed in RGB format.

A pixel on a monitor is a number of red, green, and blue phosphor dots. These dots are "excited" to varying degrees by the monitor's three electron guns, and the results mix additively to generate a specific color. By manipulating large numbers of pixels in precise ways, patterns emerge to make up an identifiable picture.

The smallest element in a displayed video image. Image resolution is measured in pixels; the greater the number of pixels, the higher the resolution.

Smallest element of a display surface that independently can be assigned color or intensity.

the smallest displayable unit on a computer monitor

The information stored for a single grid point in the image. The complete image is a rectangular array of pixels.

The small dots that make up an image on a monitor.

A pixel is a point of light on your computer screen or monitor. The screen resolution is a measure of how many pixels your screen is displaying. Image sizes are measured in pixels, e.g. this image is 20 x 20 pixels

The pixel is the smallest element of a raster display or digital image and contains information about intensity and colour. A pixel can be either square or rectangular. Generally, monitors or ink-jet prints consist of pixels with up to 256 dots per colour. Exception: dye-sublimation printer.

One of the thousands of colored dots of light that, when combined, priduce an image on a computer screen. A digital photograph's resolution, or image quality, is measured by the width and height of the image as measured in pixels.

The smallest display element on a video screen or the smallest element in a grid that is placed over a page of text or graphics.

A camera's CCD image sensor consists of thousands of tiny sensor elements known as pixels. These sensors detect information about light and colors and translate that information into a viewable video image through digital signal processing. Of the total pixels on a CCD imager, some are constantly dormant while others are effective and actively work to create an image.

In a CRT, phosphors grouped in RGB triads (one each of red, green, and blue) are called pixels. The hundreds of thousands to millions of pixels in a display create images.

A pixel is one of the many tiny dots that make up a digital image. The color and intensity of each pixel represents a tiny area of the complete image.

The small, square "picture elements" that scans consist of. A pixel is all one color; when it is arranged with many others, an image is formed. (See "Resolution.")

The smallest unit of a digital image or picture on a monitor or video display.

A pixel is the basic unit of the composition of a computer image or of a computer display.

"Each of the small areas of uniform illumination of which the image is formed on a television or computer screen." Excerpted from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia. Developed by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc. All rights reserved. As a TV screen has a much coarser resolution than a computer monitor, you can see the pixels if you look closely. It's harder to see them on the computer. When you are doing fine editing in a painting program, you can zoom in to see and change the individual pixels. ALPHABET

The smallest resolvable rectangular area of an image, either on a screen or stored in memory. Each pixel in a monochrome image has its own brightness, from 0 for black to the maximum value (e.g. 255 for an eight-bit pixel) for white. In a colour image, each pixel has its own brightness and colour, usually represented as a triple of red, green and blue intensities.

the basic unit of digital display in a computer image. The physical size of a pixel depends on how the resolution for the computer's display screen is set.

A corrupted abbreviation of ‘ pic ture el ement’ (just as facs imile is frequently condensed to ‘fax’). These are the dots that form the picture on a monitor. The smaller the pixel, the more detailed the picture.

An individual active area within the display. Typically this term applies only to dot-matrix type displays.

The picture elements that make up an image, similar to grains in a photograph or dots in a halftone. Each pixel can represent a number of different shades or colors, depending upon how much storage space is allocated for it. Raster the grid pattern applied when an image is scanned.

A pixel is the primary unit of color on a computer monitor or in an electronic image.

A small spot on a fine horizontal scan line. Pixels are illuminated to create an image on the monitor.

Smallest unit of information in a map or scanner image

A single dot of color on a monitor, television screen, or graphic image. The sharpness of a digital image or display is measured in pixels per inch. The typical computer monitor is 72 pixels per inch.

Pixels are the tiny points of light that make up a picture on a mobile phone screen. The resolution of a screen is determined by the amount of pixels that can fit into a square inch (or centimetre). Therefore, the more pixels there are on a mobile phone screen, the higher the resolution and the more detailed the images displayed. (See VGA camera)

The representation of data detected by a single detector during a certain finite collection period. Pixels may be arranged in a two dimensional array to indicate a spatial map of data (e.g. a photograph), in a one-dimensional string to display a spectrum, or in some other sort of data cube or hyperdimensional data cube.

The smallest component of any computer or TV screen. A Web page or banner's size may be specified in terms of pixels, as well as kilobytes.

The basic building block of all images -- a simple dot. In bitonal images, it is merely a black or white dot (see "Bitonal" definition above). In gray scale images, dots will have between 1-to-256 possible values of gray (for an 8-bit gray scale image).

The smallest segment of a raster line that can be discretely controlled by the display system. Usually referred to as pixels per line and lines per frame.

Tiny square of digital data. The basis of all digital images.

Digital photographs are comprised of thousands or millions of them; they are the building blocks of a digital photo.

Picture cell. This is the smallest independent unit of a digital image; similar to each dot on your monitor.

A single dot on the display screen or a televison set.

The smallest point in your image. Image resolution is measured in the number of pixels or points vertically and horizontally.

is the smallest part of a digital image and measures the image's size and resolution.

The smallest location size on a display or in memory. FPAs are measured in pixels, with each pixel generating a small portion of the thermal image.

A single unit of color on a RGB monitor.

The smallest image-forming unit of a display screen.

The smallest colorable area in an electronic image, such as a scanned document, digital photograph, or image displayed on a display screen.

Refers to the smallest points of color on a screen, composed of separate red, green and blue subpixels that combine to create an image.

The smallest element on a CCD imaging chip or computer monitor.

A tiny sample of video information, the "dots" that make up an overall picture.

An individual unit of color on a screen.

a single visual element of a computer display. On a colour CRT, a pixel is composed of three dots (red, green and blue).

short for picture elements - A tiny square on an invisible grid that is used to display objects on the computer and the printed page. If the pixel is "turned on," it has colour or shading; if it is "turned off," it looks like a blank space. Pixels can vary in size from one type of monitor to another. A greater number of pixels per inch (ppi) results in higher resolution on screen or in print.

The smallest single unit or point on a display or on a printer whose colour or brightness can be controlled. A monitor normally has a resolution of 72 pixels per inch, whereas a laser printer has a resolution of 300 to 600 pixels (also called dots) per inch

CCD's main elements. Pixels are like buckets that collect the light 'raining' on the surface of a CCD (see CCD and the CCD MOVIE above). Pixels of a typical CCD are each 15 microns square. Many pixels make up the imaging area of a CCD--many little buckets collecting light. CCDs are described by the number of pixels they have. A "4kx4k CCD" has 4096 by 4096 pixels, for a grand total of almost 17 million individual light buckets

A pixel is a single point in a graphic image. Graphics monitors display pictures by dividing the display screen into thousands (or millions) of pixels, arranged in rows and columns. The pixels are so close together that they appear connected.

The smallest element in a picture. An individual dot in a picture composed of dots, as in all digital video systems.

The smallest area that can be displayed on a given screen. Each pixel can be a different colour.

A point on a computer screen with its own x and y position relative to the top-left corner of the screen. On a LCD screen, this is an actual point on the screen which is fixed. On a monitor, a pixel does not have a fixed position on the screen, only a relative position.

Unit of measure describing the display size settings of a computer monitor.

Computer monitors divide the screen into a grid by using rows and columns of pixels, the higher the resolution a monitor has the more pixels it can display. Pixels are square and are also the smallest element that software and hardware can handle.

The smallest unit of graphic information on a computer screen. Graphic images are usually measured in pixels, and a pair of pixel coordinates can indicate an exact point within an image.

is a dot making up part of an image on a computer monitor or on paper.

One unit of screen information. A video image is composed of individual coloured dots, referred to as pixels. Depending on how a monitor is set, a pixel can take up 8 bits/1 byte (256 colours), 16 bits/2 bytes (high colour), or 24 bits/3 bytes (true colour).

A pixel is often referred to as a dot, as in dots-per-inch, rather than pixels-per-inch. NSHS prefers to use the term pixel because it more accurately describes the digital image. In the print world, two pixels exists for every dot.

the dots of light on a computer monitor.

Pixels are the building blocks of a digital image. Each represents a single dot of color (or the absence of it).

Pic ture el ement, image point

A collection of dots that make up a monitor's display. On color monitors, a pixel contains three dots: red, green, and blue. On monochrome monitors, a pixel contains only one dot.

A pixel is one dot that carries the information from the optical sensor on the CCD to the image itself. Each pixel displays one color and all of the pixels together produce the image.

An individual dot of color in a computer environment.

A word derived from Picture Elements. This is the smallest unique point of a digital video image. In a Digital Video, a picture is divided up into thousand of Pixels, each specified by Luminance, Chrominance, and position information.

The smallest unit of a computer screen (usually a square or rectangle). The number of pixels per inch determines the resolution of a screen. The greater the number of pixels per inch, the higher the screen resolution.

Short for Pixel Element. The basic unit of the composition of an image made by a computer, scanner, television screen or other digital device.

One dot on a computer screen. If you look at your computer screen very closely, you'll that all the letters and pictures are made of tiny dots, or pixels. These days, most screens are set to display 800 pixels across and 600 down. A screen usually has about 75 pixels per inch, and high-quality colour printing has about 1200. So, compared with a colour magazine (or even an inkjet printer) a computer screen can't show tiny details.

Refers to picture element, which is a unit of programmable color on a Palm device screen.

A contraction of picture element. The smallest dot on a computer screen.

The smallest unit of a raster display. A picture cell with specific color and/or brightness. The more pixels an image has, the more detail, or resolution, it can display. The pixel size in a high-end computer monitor's screen (a “1K x 1K monitor”) is approximately 0.28 x 0.28 mm. The pixel size for diagnostic teleradiology monitors (“2K x 2K”) is much smaller than this.

Acronym for PICture ELement. The smallest units of a picture on a monitor's screen. The more pixels a screen has, the clearer the resolution.

the smallest logical unit of visual information that can be used to build an image. Short for picture element, pixels are the little squares that can be seen by enlarging an image. equal to one Œbit¹ if black and white (monochrome, or 2-colors), equal to one Œbyte¹ (8 bits) for ŒIndexed Color¹ (256 colors), equal to 2 bytes for 16-bit color (ŒThousands of Colors¹) equal to 3 Œbytes¹ (24 bits) for ŒTrue Color¹, or (ŒMillions of Colors) equal to 4 Œbytes¹ (32 bits) for " " + 'alpha' (transparency) channel.

is a contraction of "picture element" and refers to a single dot of light that is the smallest individually addressable unit of an image that can be displayed.

Abbreviation for picture element, the smallest unit that can be sensed, manipulated, or output by a digital system or displayed on a computer screen.

Short for picture element. Each image is composed of a number of pixels. Pixels are also counted in units of dots.

A single dot in a digital image. Short for Picture Element.

Shorthand term for "picture element" used to describe a single LED or a cluster of LEDs that forms a unit.

The smallest unit of digital information. Think of it as a dot or grain, which contains information about the color or brightness value of the area of the picture it represents.

Single picture element of a detection device.

The smallest dot you can draw on a computer screen (short for "picture element").

The smallest building block within a scanned line-art or photographic image. A pixel is the small square picture element that is filled with a color, or black or white. Pixels come in various sizes and their size is expressed in terms of resolution. Resolution is measured in pixels per inch (PPI.)

Computer screens are made up of thousands of tiny dots which are individually colored to show an image. These dots are called pixels.

The basic unit which a scanned or output image is divided into. For contones each pixel also has a grey level component. The number of pixels per inch in an image that can be captured by a scanner or that can be output by an imagesetter or LaserWriter is referred to as their resolution.

The pixel is the smallest unit of resolution for an output device. It is usually used to describe the resolution of the display screen. Although laser printer output is made up of dots (or pixels), one usually refers to its output in terms of dpi or "dots per inch".

The term "pixel" is actually short for "Picture Element." These small little ...

Picture element, or PIX ELement. Related to a particular image address in digital component systems or to the smallest reproducible element in analog systems.

Equivalently, picture element, a pixel is the smallest unit of a computer image and is assigned a unique color after rendering. [WOL93

Short for Picture Element. A pixel is the smallest area of a television picture capable of being delineated by an electrical signal passed through the system of part thereof. The number of picture elements (pixels) in a complete picture, and their geometric characteristics of vertical height and horzontal width, provide information on the total amount of detail which the raster can display and on the sharpness of the detail, respectively.

the basic unit of programmable color on an LED display

Derived from Picture Element. A pixel is the smallest area of a television monitor capable of displaying information in the form of a black, white, grey or colour dot. The more pixels in an image, the better the resolution.

(PIX [picture] ELement) The smallest addressable unit on a display screen. The higher the pixel resolution (the more rows and columns of pixels), the more information can be displayed.

Short for "PICture ELement." The small, multi-colored dots that are illuminated to create the big picture on a TV screen. HDTV sets have more than 2 million pixels.

short for picture element; a single picture element of a digital photo or displayed image. Taken together, all of the millions of pixels form a grid that represents the content of the image.

(Picture Element) One single point of light on a monitor screen, or one single grid point in a bitmapped image data file.

Abbreviation for picture element, a pixel is a single point in a graphic image that represents a single color. Image size is expressed in terms of pixels - the number of pixels across by the number of pixels down. ppi Abbreviation for pixels per inch, which indicates the resolution of an image. The ppi of an image determines the size that it will be printed at. For example, when an image stored at 100ppi is printed, every 100 pixels of information in the image maps to 1 inch on the print. The image will print that way regardless of the dpi capability of the printer - if a 300dpi printer prints a 100ppi image, it will print 9 dots (3 x 3) for every pixel in the image.

PICture Element. The smallest piece of information in a digitale file. e.g. a color.

(PICture ELements) The smallest "dot" on a computer screen.

A ‘picture element’, the little dots that make up an image on a screen

The smallest unit of data in raster artwork. A pixel is made up of color and placement information. Pixels grouped together form an image. Pixels are sometimes referred to as “dots.

A pixel (picture, or "pix", combined with element) is generally defined as the smallest area on a monitor's display which can be lit up independently. On a color monitor, a pixel is actually composed of three sub-pixels (red, blue, and green) and is therefore the smallest area which can be lit up as a color. See also resolution and dot pitch.

The smallest point in an image. The single dot, one of the many that make up a picture.

PIX (picture) Element 1. The smallest unit of picture information on imagers, scanners, printers, displays, images, or graphic files. 2. The basic picture element of a computer screen or graphics sensing array, such as CCD; the smallest dot a computer can create. 3. The individual "picture elements" on a picture tube or display device.

Derived from picture element. Usually refers to the CCD chip unit picture cell. It consists of a photosensor plus its associated control gates.

A pixel, short for picture element, is the smallest element that can be displayed on a video screen or computer monitor, and is often used as a unit of measurement for image size and resolution. The number of pixels (width and height) in an image defines its size, and the number of pixels in an inch defines the resolution of the image.

Short for picture element. These are the dots that form the picture on a monitor. The smaller the pixel, the more detailed the picture.

Pixel is a term used to describe the dots that make up your monitor of TV screen - the combination of pixels make the colors and images

A single dot representing a color in an enlargement picture.

(picture element) A pixel is a single point in a digitized or digital image. Pixels are made up of bits -- the more bits each pixel has, the more colors or shades of gray can be displayed. Pixels are arranged in rows and columns, making up an image. The image resolution is represented by the amount of pixels in these rows and columns, i.e., 640 pixels across by 480 pixels down would have a total of 307,200 pixels creating the image.

Picture element; the smallest viewable part of a screen image.

The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a screen (usually a colored dot); "the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution." -- WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

Short for picture element, one pixel is a single point in an image. You see a complete image when multiple pixels are put together.

The smallest element of a digitized image. Also, one of the tiny points of light that make up a picture on a computer screen.

The image that you see on the screen is made of thousands of tiny dots, points or pixels.

The smallest triggerable image part

The individual imaging element of a CCD or the individual output point of a display device. This is what is meant by the figures 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960 and etc when dealing with the resolution of a particular digicam. Higher numbers are always better

Short for picture element, Pixels are the tiny dots that make up a digital image on a monitor. The more pixels that there are, the higher the screen or image resolution will be. The CCD generates pixels. The bigger the CCD, the more pixels the camera can capture.

A pixel is the smallest graphical element that makes up images on your computer. It is a small square of light.

The smallest information building block of an on-screen image. The resolution of a monitor is determined by the number of pixels covering the width and height of the complete on-screen image.

Short for "picture element." The smallest bit of data in a video image. The smaller the size of the pixels in an image, the greater the resolution.

Short for Picture Element, a pixel is the smallest part of a digital image which can be displayed on a computer screen. A digital picture can consist of millions of pixels. A monitorâ€(tm)s screen resolution size is also measured in pixels.

Short for picture element, a single point in an electronic image. The greater the number of pixels, the better the quality of an image. 5.20, 6.5 scanner, 5.26 video cards, 6.10

One of many tiny picture elements, organized into an array, making up a digital image.

A combination of Picture and Element. A pixel is the smallest element of a display which can be assigned a color.

a pixel is an individual dot that makes up a graphic image. For example, a 640 x 480 monitor is 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels high. If you are doing banner advertising, you will often see the specification that your banner must be 468 x 60; this means your banner can be 468 pixels wide and 60 pixels high. Your graphics editor program will allow you to determine your banner's size.

A single display element of an LCD screen. The more pixels, the higher the resolution and definition.

("picture element") is one of many small dots used to represent a picture.

A pixel is short for picture element. It is the smallest element that can be displayed on a computer screen. E.g.: A screen resolution of 800x600 pixels, means 800 horizontal pixels and 600 vertical pixels, which totals 480,000 pixels.

picture element - same as grid cell.

an individual picture element. In solid-state imagers, a pixel refers to a discrete photosensitive cell that can collect and hold a photocharge. The display resulting from the collection of photocharge usually has the same number of pixels as the imager does.

Short for picture element. A single imaging unit that can be identified by a computer. Higher image quality results from more pixels.

Picture element; a measure of resolution for video format.

Pixels are the smallest possible display unit of visual information available for building a graphical image. It is also the basic unit of a CCD chip, with most CCD chips being comprised of over 300,000 pixels.

A pixel is a small dot that represents a single element of a display. The more pixels that make up an image, the clearer and more detailed that image will appear.

The smallest unit of color in a display. Frames are made up of lines and columns of pixels. The number of pixel lines in each frame expresses video resolution.  Plasma display panel (PDP) Flat panel display using plasma electronic technology.

The tiniest dot that makes up a computer image.

Pixels are very small points of light that form images on your computer monitor. Computer monitors are measured by the number of pixels they contain. A common size is 640 by 480 pixels (or a 14'' monitor).

One picture element. Often used synonymously with a raster or grid cell. The smallest discrete element which makes up an image.

Picture elements, the smallest element which can be displayed on a video display screen.

The smallest unit of a digitized picture (i.e., a scan or digital illustration). Pixel is a contraction of the words "picture element". A scan's spatial resolution is usually measured in pixels or dots per inch.

Short for picture element, a pixel is a single point in a graphic image. Generally, the smaller the pixel or the more pixels in a given space, the sharper your image will be.

Abbreviated term for picture element. The smallest element of display, consisting of a single dot or group of three dots (red, green and blue). Total pixels are usually expressed in horizontal x vertical dimensions (e.g., 640 x 480).

Minimum graphic unit of the phone display. Image is made of pixels. In most cases this term is applied when describing the phones with in-built photo or video-cameras.

Shorthand for "picture element." A pixel is the smallest element of a graphics display or the smallest element of a rendered image.

Picture Element; the smallest element to create an image in computer graphics; a dot

the smallest spatial unit in a raster (cell-based) data structure

One picture element or one sample of digital picture information.

A shortened version of "Picture cell" or "Picture element." The name given to one sample of picture information. Pixel can refer to an individual sample of R, G, B luminance or chrominance, or sometimes to a collection of such samples if they are co-sited and together produce one picture element.

Pixel stands for picture element. It is the smallest element of information that program s can display or print. A picture or image is made up of thousands of pixels. A pixel is sometimes called a pel

Acronym for picture element, the smallest picture sample that can be sensed, manipulated or output by a digital system. In a color system, each pixel is represented either by cyan, magenta, yellow and black values, or red, green and blue values.

Refers to how monitors divide the display screen into thousands or millions of individual dots to display an image. A pixel is one dot. Also used for physical size and resolution (pixels per inch) of graphic files.

smallest addressable picture element that can be adjusted in intensity

A single dot or group of three dots (red, green and blue) on a display. Total display pixels are usually expressed in horizontal x vertical dimension (e.g., 640x480).

The smallest picture element of an image [one sample of each color component] A single dot of the array of dots that makes up a picture.

Originally, this word was short for the term “picture element”. A pixel is a single rectangular point in a larger graphic image composed of many rectangular points. Computer monitors can display pictures because the screen is divided into millions of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Pixels are so close together that from a distance they appear to be connected.

(picture element) A pixel is a single point in a digitized or digital image. Pixels are made up of elements to produce a specific color. In a digital image file, a pixel is made up of numeric values representing shades of three colors red, green, and blue (RGB). In a 24-bit image file each RGB color has a total of 256 shades possible, combining the 256 shades for each of the 3 colors with the possibility of up to 16,777,216 possible colors for each pixel.

Picture Element: the individual dots that make up any screen image.

The smallest element (a picture element) that a device can display on-screen and out of which the displayed image is constructed

A single grid point (or ``dot'') in a raster image; composed of one sample from each channel. Most computer images are composed of pixels.

Contraction of the words picture and element. In graphics mode, text and graphics are formed by patterns of dots called pixels.

Picture element, the digitisation of text or graphics into minute areas

Stands for Picture Element. Is an individual graphic element of a display.

Picture element. In a raster grid, a pixel is the smallest unit that can be addressed and given a color or intensity.

Short for picture element, a pixel is a single point in a graphic image. Graphics monitors display pictures by dividing the display screen into thousands (or millions) of pixels, arranged in rows and columns.

A "picture element". See Cell above.

Short for picture element, a dot made by a computer, scanner or other digital device. Also called pel.

Short for Pixel Element - the basic element or fundamental building block of a bitmapped image. It is a colored tile which, when displayed in a mosaic of thousands or millions of other pixels, comprises a digital image.

The picture element on a display area, such as a monitor screen or printed page. Each pixel is individually accessible.

Short for a picture element, a pixel is the smallest unit of space in a computer image or display. Every image on your computer is made up of a colored grid of square pixels.

The word pixel comes from the phrase "picture element." The small dot of color that makes up an image on a computer monitor.

The smallest unit of information on a TV or computer screen. The image you see is composed of a large number of colored pixels. Low resolution results in larger, square pixels, while high resolution produces tiny dots.

Acronym for picture element; a unit of measurement for the colored dots in a video display. The more pixels a display has, the higher the resolution and the clearer the picture.

The basic unit of onscreen display. From "Picture Element"

A single point on a monitor screen arranged in rows and columns to create an image. A video resolution, such as 800 x 600, is expressed as the number of pixels across by the number of pixels up and down.

(Picture Element)  The smallest dot that's used to build an image on the screen.  In digital, a pixel contains data for its position, intensity and color on the screen.

single unit of screen information: one of the colored "dots" that make up a video image. Depending on the display mode, a pixel may require 8 bits/1 byte of information (for 256, or VGA, color mode), 16 bits/2 bytes (for "high color" mode) or 24 bits/3 bytes (for "true color" mode).

The pixel is the smallest part of a digital photograph. It is one colored "dot" on a digital photograph. Also used in measuring image size and resolution, i.e., 640 x 480 is the pixel resolution of most VGA Monitors. (Note pixels are square in computers and rectangular in video)

Computer monitors divide the display screen into thousands or millions of individual dots. A pixel is one of those dots. An 8-bit colour monitor can display 256 pixels, while a 24-bit colour monitor can display more than 16 million.

picture element (single illuminated dot) on a computer monitor. The metric used to indicate the size of Internet ads.

Picture element. The bits at location ( x, y) of all the bitplanes in the framebuffer constitute the single pixel ( x, y). In an image in client memory, a pixel is one group of elements. In OpenGL window coordinates, each pixel corresponds to a 1.0×1.0 screen area. The coordinates of the lower-left corner of the pixel are x,y are ( x, y), and of the upper-right corner are

Tiny dots that make up a computer image. The more pixels a computer monitor can display, the better the image resolution and quality. On a color monitor, every pixel is composed of a red, a green, and a blue dot that are small enough to appear as a single entity.

A shortened term for "picture element." It is the smallest element that can contain data in a detector or other two-dimensional representation, like an electronic image. ( go to first use in the text)

Picture element with coordinates and color that textures are made of, or rendered onto computer screen by the 3D engine

Picture Element. The more pixels in a frame, the greater the resolution of the frame.

"Picture Element" Any image that is displayed from a digital file is made up of individual dots or "pixels." The pixel is the smallest unit of measurement in digital images, and the smaller the pixels, the finer the potential for detail. When it comes to pixels, bigger is definitely not better. The number of pixels contained in a given space (such as each inch or each centimetre) is defined by the resolution of an image. You can think of it as a "dot" of colour that is too small to be seen by itself. Hundreds of these dots viewed together make up the image you see on your screen. More pixels are better, because the screen can display more detailed images. Screen resolution is often expressed in pixels - 1024x768 means a screen displays 1024 pixels horizontally by 768 pixels vertically, for a total of 786,432 pixels.. So, when we say an image is 140 x 60 we mean the image is 140 pixels wide by 60 pixels high. Each pixel can be a different colour and in a different position. This creates the image that you see on the screen. The number of horizontal and vertical pixels determined the resolution of the graphic.

picture element, or the smallest unit of the computer screen. A pixel can be monochrome or up to the pixel depth available on your color system. Pixels are also used for identifying screen resolution, e.g. 72 pixels per inch.

The smallest element of a display that can be adjusted in intensity.

picture element, a single dot displayed on your monitor

Contraction of "picture element." A small element of a scene, often the smallest resolvable area, in which an average brightness value is determined and used to represent that portion of the scene. Pixels are arranged in a rectangular array to form a complete image.

Smallest bit of video information that is visual. On computers represented as RGB information, in video pixels are in a YUV color space.

A picture image screen-element that can be switched on and off and which can be made to correspond to a bit on a specified bitmap.

Short for "picture element". A pixel is the smallest resolvable point of a raster image. It is the basic unit of digital imaging.

Pixel: A picture element, dot or cell. Display screens are divided into a matrix of rows and columns of these transistor cells. Pixels are the smallest unit on the screen grid that can be displayed.

The smallest element of data in a video image.

An abbreviation for "picture element"; the rectangles or squares that make up a digital image in MRI, CT, digital fluoroscopy and radiography.

Acronym for picture element. The smallest part of a picture element that a computer can address or recognize.

a combination of the words “picture” and “element.” A pixel is the smallest discernible sample of video information, the “little squares” that make up an overall picture.

Picture element, base unit, the dot which makes up the image. To define a pixel you need to know its coordinate and its colour.

Short for picture element. The smallest element of a raster display represented as a point with specified color and intensity.

the smallest unit that a device can address. Most often refers to display monitors, a pixel being the smallest spot of phosphor that can be lit up on the screen.

Picture element. The smallest cell or area of a CCD chip capable of displaying detail on a screen. The greater the number of pixels, the higher the resolution.

Short for picture element, a pixel is the smallest piece of a picture that can be manipulated. The picture quality of an image depends on the number of pixels that make up that image.

A single point of an image, having a single pixel value.

one dot of color, on the computer screen or on a printer, etc may be equal to one bit if black and white (monochrome, or 2-colors) equal to one byte (8 bits) for Indexed Color (256 colors) (for the Web, eg) equal to 2 bytes for 16-bit color (Thousands of Colors) equal to 3 bytes (24 bits) for True Color, or RGB (Millions of Colors equal to 4 bytes (32 bits) for " " + 'alpha' (transparency) channel

two-dimensional picture element that is the smallest nondivisible element of a digital image.

The basic unit of resolution of bitmapped images and monitor displays. They have fixed size, but variable density.

The element of a digital image where color values and brightness have been recorded.

The smallest mark that can be printed. A pixel is sometimes referred to as a dot. Character bitmaps are made up of dots or pixels. The word pixel is a contraction of picture element.

The smallest unit of light on a computer's screen.

contraction of picture element. It is the elementary component of a raster image and it is characterized by a value associated to it.

(Stands for PICture ELement) Pixels are square dots that represent the smallest units displayed on a computer screen. The standard Macintosh monitor displays about 72 pixels per inch. Characters or graphics are created by turning pixels on or off.

A pixel is a small square of digital "information". Millions of pixels combine to make up a digital image.

A pixel is a colour controllable dot on the screen. The amount of which horizontally and vertically give the resolution. The higher the resolution the better quality for text and graphics.

A point on a McIDAS-X frame assigned a unique pair of line and element coordinates.

Picture Element. A point of light that forms part of a video or photographic image.

PIcture ELement. This is the smallest unit of a video display screen.

Square dots that represent the smallest units displayed on a computer screen. Typical monitors display 72 pixels per inch. Characters and graphics are created by turning pixels on or off.

Unit of measurement of a digital image.

A tiny sample of video information; the "dots" that make up the television picture.

An individual dot on the computer's display, used to show graphics. A graphic image on a computer is made up of hundreds of dots or pixels. Each can be a different color or in a different position, which creates the image you see on the screen.. The number of pixels horizontally & vertically give you the graphics resolution.

The smallest, complete unit of information about a single point in a digital image. It is not the same as a computer bit. For more information, click here.

Shorthand term for picture element, or the smallest point or dot on a computer monitor.

the smallest spot of phosphor on a display monitors that can be lit up on a screen.

The basic unit of programmable colour on a computer display or in a computer image.

A single dot on a computer display or in a digital image.

A picture element, which is also called a pel. The spot of graphical information displayed at a single location on a screen or other output device, or on paper.

A picture element; the "building blocks" of a liquid crystal display (LCD). The greater the number of vertical and horizontal pixels, the better the screen resolution and detail.

The smallest displayable area on a computer screen; the fundamental picture element of a digital image.

The smallest resolvable unit of a computer image or on a computer monitor. Pixel size statements are in the form e.g. '640x480' (pixels).

The smallest definable graphic component. This literally means, "Picture element". A game unit typically consists of a square cluster of 4 pixels (two pixels by two pixels).

(PIX [picture] Element) The smallest addressable unit on a display screen. Resolution is measured in pixels, for example 1280 x 1024

Picture Element. The smallest element of an image. Each pixel has a specified hue and intensity. An image is composed of a grid of pixels, usually written as a horizontal dimension followed by a vertical one (640 X 480, i.e.).

The smallest picture element on the monitor screen that can be controlled by the computer.

abbreviated form of the words picture element. A point of a specific colour in an image or video. Digital images are composed of grids of colour called pixels. Each pixel is given a specific location and colour value. Often when enlarged, they look like a mosaic of colours.

Picture Element A Picture Element (pixel) is a single addressable location on a computer screen, i.e. the smallest unit of display that can be controlled by software. Size:The actual size of a pixel is relative, depending on the quality of the screen, or how the screen is configured. A web author can therefore never be sure of the exact size or quality in which documents would be rendered. Color: Color can be assigned to a pixel, but the software color palette is translated into hardware according to manufacturer specifications, so the color of a pixel is also not absolute. sRGB is one attempt to standardize on the delivery of color.

From Picture Element: the smallest unit whose characteristics may be uniquely determined; an individual dot on the screen.

(IEEE) (1) In image processing and pattern recognition, the smallest element of a digital image that can be assigned a gray level. (2) In computer graphics, the smallest element of a display surface that can be assigned independent characteristics. This term is derived from the term "picture element".

Dot of RGB light which comprises an image on a computer screen. The more pixels per inch, the higher the resolution of the image on the computer monitor.

Picture element; smallest unit of a graphics or video display; light characteristics (color & intensity) which can be coded into an electrical signal for transmission.

The smallest unit of a digital TV picture. There are also display pixels, which are the smallest unit visible on a plasma, LCD, DLP, or LCoS TV.

A measurement representing a single point in a graphic. Typically, the size of banner ads are expressed in pixels, e.g., 120x600 refers to pixel size.

a combination of the words 'picture element'. A digital picture is made up of tiny squares. If you enlarge a picture big enough you can see these squares or pixels. Usually, the more pixels in a picture, the sharper it will be.

An abbreviation for picture element; a way to measure picture resolution.

Short for picture element. The fundamental unit of digital imaging. The smallest unit of an image with homogeneous intensity and color. The numeric representation of an intensity and color. Sometimes used interchangeably with photosite to specify the light sensitive cells that compose a solid state imaging sensor.

The smallest resolvable element in a computer-generated image (contraction of the words "picture element"). Picture resolution is measured by the number or "pixels" used to create an image, usually in horizontal and vertical dimensions (expressed as two numbers with an "x" between them standing for horizontal by vertical or HxV). The higher number of pixels per inch, the higher the resolution.

Picture element. Smallest addressable point of a bitmapped screen that can be independently assigned color and intensity.

Basic unit of image composition. Generally, the more your camera captures, the better. Manufacturers list their products' capabilities by the million, hence megapixels.

A pixel is a tiny coloured square. Many pixels make up an image. The quality of the computer image depends on the screens resolution or the number of pixels the screen can display.

These are the ‘building blocks' that join together to create an image on a digital still camera. Short for ‘picture element'

a picture element having both spatial and spectral properties.

A single point on a display.

Pixel is the common term for "picture element", the smallest part of television, monitor or photographic images. There are millions of picture elements in any digitized photograph (a 1"x1" square inch image at 72 DPI contains 5184 pixels). Pixels are the units that are manipulated in photo editing software. In bitmap images, the more pixels, the higher the resolution. Enlarging a pixel-based image too much can compromise its quality.

A picture element; a single displayable video dot. HDTV requires from 1 to 2 million pixels in the display for full resolution images to be shown.

Picture element. The smallest area of a display screen capable of being addressed and switched between visible and invisible states.

Pixel is short for 'picture element', and describes the smallest controllable viewable element on a screen (i.e. an individual point of colour or greyscale in a displayed image).

This "word" is short for "picture element". The image on your computer monitor is made up of colored dots called pixels. If the resolution of your system is set for 800x600 then there are 480,000 of these dots. Each pixel in your monitor is actually a cluster of three small holes, through which red, green and blue phosphors are lighted. Each of the three colors can have 256 levels of intensity. This gives us the possibility of over 16 million colors per pixel. The pixel's colors can be saved as data in a computer file and then utilized by a printer to reproduce the image.

(1) The smallest element with controllable color and brightness in a video display or computer graphics. (2) A picture element within the monitor which is made up of single dots of light. They are grouped together to create images or graphics. The higher the resolution of the monitor, the greater the number of pixels it will contain. (3) The smallest information building block of an on-screen image. On a color monitor screen, each pixel is made up of one or more triads (red, green, and blue). Resolution is usually expressed in terms of the number of pixels that fit within the width and height of a complete on screen image. In VGA the resolution is 640 by 480 pixels; in SuperVGA (SVGA), it is 800 by 600 or 1024 by 768 pixels. (7/96)

PICture Element; the smallest element on a computer CRT or LCD unit.

The small cells that visually combine to form images on a screen. Each individual pixel on a monitor is made up of three separate colors (Red, Green, and Blue).

An image displayed on a computer is made up of lots of dots called pixels. A number of pixels displayed is referred to as the image's resolution.

A graphics term that designates the smallest picture element that can be displayed on a screen, usually a single-colored dot.

Term that comes from the words Picture Element (PEL). A pixel is the smallest portion of an image or display that a computer is capable of printing or displaying. You can get a better understanding of what a pixel is when zooming into an image.

This is short for picture element and is a point of data in a digital image. This captures the color and light data on the CCD.

is the smallest element of an electronically-coded image. Pixel is a contraction of the words "picture element." See image resolution.

Picture Element A single dot which is one of the tiny squares you can see if you look very closely at your monitor or television, which make up the pictures. A pixel is the smallest unit of colour a monitor or TV can display. Also the smallest imaging element on a camcorders CCD.

The smallest addressable picture element on a display screen or printed page.

acronym for a picture element, the smallest discrete two-dimensional part of a digital image display.

Picture Element. A single dot in an image. It can be black and white, greyscale or colour. Resolution The number of dots per inch (dpi) that were stored during scanning. The greater the number, the greater the amount of detail that is visible. It is recommended that you use between 72 and 100 dpi for images that will de displayed on the screen, and 300 dpi for images that will print on common inexpensive printers. Higher resolution images take up more space as well. Scanner A device that can read text or illustrations printed on paper and translate the information into a form the computer can use. A scanner works by "digitising" an image and placing it on the computer as a file. Thumbnails Small versions of an image used for quick overviews or to get a general idea of what an image looks like.

The shortened form of picture element. A pixel is the minimum raster display element, represented as a point with a specified color or intensity level. One way to measure picture resolution is by the number of pixels used to create images.

Picture element. Definable locations on a display screen that are used to form images on the screen. For graphic displays, screens with more pixels provide higher resolution.

A pixel (short for "picture element") is one of thousands of tiny spots in a grid on a display screen or printed sheet. These spots, or blocks, are individually colored in order to show images on computer screens, and represent the smallest elements that may be manipulated to create graphics. © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. "Pixel," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

A picture element of a raster image as displayed on a screen or raster plot.

Picture Element - the primary measurement of an image. Images may contain as little as 1 or hundres of bits per pixel.

In electronic imaging, a basic unit of digital imaging. Can contain text or gray scale information for photographs or just represent the presence or absence of a spot (zero or one).

Picture Element - Word created to describe the individual dots on a computer screen

The basic square unit of screen images. Screen images usually have 72 pixels per inch.

Picture element. Digital images are composed of touching pixels, each having a specific color. The eye merges differently colored pixels into continuous tones.

Short for "picture element," a pixel is the basic unit of information on a display. It can be made up of different colored sub-pixels.

Short for picture element. Each cell that constitutes an intersection of the grid of rows and columns on a CCD array is a pixel. A pixel is a single measurable entity for charge storage, release, and ADU conversion on a CCD.

picture element. An individual dot of light on a screen, that can be turned on or off, or a point imaged on paper on film by a laser printer or image setters. The sharpness or resolution of a screen is most often measured in pixels (dots) per square inch.

Short for Picture Element. The basic unit from which a video or computer picture is made. Essentially a dot with a given color and brightness value. D1 images are 720 pixels wide by 486 high. NTSC images are 640 by 480 pixels.

A pixel is the smallest element a computer can use to draw objects on the screen.

The smallest element of a vide screen that can be assigned a determined colour, brightness and luminance. Pixel is the acronym of "pictorial element" or "picture element". One pixel is each and every addressable element in a video screen. It's normally controlled by a memory matrix called frame buffer that contains the necessary information to illuminate the pixel with predetermined colour, brightness and luminance.

Short for PICture ELement, a dot that represents the smallest graphic unit of measurement on a screen. The actual size of a pixel is screen-dependent, and varies according to the size of the screen and the resolution being used. As atoms are to molecules, pixels are to pictures.

An acronym for "picture element." The smallest distinguishable and resolvable area in an image. The discrete location of an individual photo-sensor in a solid state camera.

Pixels are individual points of a graphical image. The more pixels an image has, the better its image quality will be. If you increase the number of pixels, you'll also increase the image size. Image dimensions are measured in pixels (i.e. 640x480 pixels).

An individual picture element in a detector; for example, a particular silicon diode in a CCD.

The acronym for picture element. A pixel is a single dot on a monitor that can be addressed by a single bit.

Pixel is two words combined: picture + element and is the smallest unit of a digital image that can be displayed on a computer screen. An image is created when a beam of electrons strikes phosphors which coat the base of the monitor's screen. A group comprising one red, one green and one blue phosphor is known as a pixel and represents the smallest part of the image (or monitor screen) that can be controlled individually and each pixel can be set to a specific colour and intensity.

Simply a colored dot on your screen. All the images you see on your computer are made up of pixels; the typical monitor is 640 pixels wide by 480 high. Now, aren't you glad to know that

The term "pixel" comes from the phrase "picture element" and is equivalent to a dot on a screen. High-Definition pictures are comprised of many more horizontal and vertical colored dots than standard definition pictures. In the DTV world, pixels are broadcast as either square-shaped or rectangular-shaped pieces of the total picture.

Picture element. A pixel is one display dot on the face of the monitor screen.

A single point of an image on the computer screen. The amount of pixels your monitor displays is responsible for the quality of the picture shown.

A single dot on the CRT display. This word is derived from the words 'picture' and 'element'.

Short for "picture element." One of thousands of tiny dots of color that make up the image on a monitor.

Picture Element: the smallest element of a display that can be assigned a color value. Digital photographs are comprised of thousands or millions of them. The building blocks of a digital photo.

Short for Picture Element. Smallest image unit which can be recorded, worked on and outputted with the help of a digital image processing system. Independent image element.

a single rectangular point in a larger graphic image that is composed of many rectangular points

Picture element containing levels of grey information. A single point in a facsimile transmission.

Short for picture element, a dot made by a computer, scanner or other digital device. Planographic Printin - Printing method whose image carriers are level surfaces with inked areas separated from noninked areas by chemical means. Planographic printing includes lithography, offset lithography and spirit duplicating.

A pixel is a single dot of an image. It is the smallest indivisible unit in an image. Typically a pixel will have a value associated with it, either a tonal value or a tonal/colour value. The more pixels, the better the resolution, but the more memory required to save and store the image. (Note pixels are square in computers and most digital cameras, they are rectangular in video cameras and television).

Short for picture element, this is the smallest element in an image. On a TV screen, a pixel appears as a cluster of tiny red, green, and blue phosphors. (See wide-screen.)

A single dot of light on the computer screen; the smallest unit of a computer graphic. Short for "picture element."

Short for picture element. It is the smallest addressable unit (a "dot") found on monitors or printed documents. It can be used as a measure of resolution as in pixel per inch. Each pixel has a color and intensity associated with it.

Short for picture element; sometimes called a pel. One spot in a rectilinear grid of thousands of such spots that are individually "painted" to form an image produced on the screen by a computer or on paper by a printer.

This is similar to PC monitors and measures the width by height of your display in pixels - screen size is usually irrelevant.

Picture element; the smallest addressable spatial element of the computer graphics screen. A digital image address, or the smallest reproducible element in analog video. A pixel can be monochrome, gray-scale, or color, and can have an alpha component to determine opacity or transparency. Pixels are referred to as having a color component and an alpha component, even if the color component is gray-scale or monochrome.

Short for picture element, Pixels are the tiny dots of information that make up a digital image. The more pixels there are on the camera's image sensor ( CCD or CMOS), the higher the image resolution will be. The higher the resolution, the clearer an enlarged print can be.

picture element. A dot (black and white or RGB), representing one element of information about an image.

the smallest unit or area of an image map.

A picture element. The smallest element of a digitised picture.

Acronym for Picture Element. The smallest unit of information in a digital image. Pixels contain tone and color that can be modified. The human eye merges very small pixels so they appear as continuous tones.

Short for Picture Element. Also called a Pel. The fundamental spatial element in an image.

An abbreviation for picture element, the smallest element that can be edited or modified in an image such as an icon.

see picture element

Short for picture element - the smallest part of an image displayed on a monitor or captured by a scanner or digital camera.

Picture element. Any of the small discrete elements that together constitute an image on a television screen or computer monitor display. -value : Probability value.

This is a word defined from the term "picture element" and is the smallest viewable element, rectangular or square in an image or display. The function of a workstation will determine the number of pixels required in its display. See Workstation.

The smallest component of a digital image. A (small) square (or in rare cases a rectangle) with one specific colour. Often called a dot when it can only be coloured or empty, "on" or "off", black or white.

Is a Picture Element - a single point or unit of programmable color in a graphic image or computer display. [ Back

A picture element of an image that refers to a single dot with in a digital photograph. A photograph is made up of thousands of pixels.

Short for Picture Element. A single point in a graphic image. Monitors display pictures by dividing the display screen into thousands (or millions) of pixels, arranged in rows and columns. The pixels are so close together that they appear connected.

Abbreviation for picture element, one of the tiny dots generated by a computer or output device to constitute images.

Short for "picture element." The individual dots, or components, of a screen. They are arranged in rows and columns and form the images that are displayed on the screen.

Short for picture element. A single point on your screen.

Shortened word for Picture Element, a pixel is the smallest resolvable spatial information element on a display screen. The larger the pixel count the greater the picture Resolution. See Display Modes and Resolution.

One dot on a computer screen. Todays least expensive monitors typically are 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels high. Larger and more expensive monitors range up to 1600 x 1200 pixels and special purpose monitors may go much higher than that.

Picture Cell. The smallest area which can be addressed on a graphics type screen.

a "picture element" or a single spot of light on your image. A CCD array is composed of some number of pixels. For example, the previous generation Spacewatch CCD had 2048x2048 pixels or 4,194,304 pixels. Our new mosaic camera will be composed of 4 CCDs each with 2048x4608 pixels or 4x9,437,184 = 37,748,736 pixels.

Term derived from "picture element." The smallest resolved area of information on an image display, representing an element from a data array.

Abbreviation for PICture ELement, a pixel is a small square of colored light that forms a digital image. It is the smallest unit in a digital image.

The smallest unit of a picture on a computer screen. An 8-bit color monitor can display 256 pixels, while a 24-bit color monitor can display more than 16 million.

The smallest unit of resolution on a computer screen or image.

A picture element. The basic unit of a graphic display, a pixel is a location on the monitor screen that can be selectively turned on or off.

Picture Element. A single dot in an image. It can be black and white, grayscale or color. The OCR process coverts pixels on a scanned image into an associated searchable text file.

A mnemonic term meaning picture element. Any of the tiny elements that form a picture on a video display screen. Also called a pel.

short for "picture element"; one of the dots that make up a digitized image. A pixel may be binary (black and white) or multivalued for colored displays. The number of pixels in a display determines resolution, more pixels providing higher resolution.

The individual dots on the screen. Stands for Picture Element. Pixelated means that you can see these individual color blocks, maybe enlarged.

Short for "picture element." A digital camera's CCD consists of millions of pixels, each one building up a tiny charge of electricity in response to the light it "sees." The more pixels a CCD has, the higher the camera's potential resolution. Visit our FAQ for more info on effective pixel count and actual pixel count.

The smallest part of an image a computer printer or display can control. An image on a computer monitor consists of hundreds of thousands of pixels, arranged in such a manner that they appear to each be connected.

picture element - the most basic component in a graphic image - the smallest thing that can be drawn on a computer screen. Every computer graphic is made up of a grid of pixels. When these pixels are 'painted' onto the screen, they form an image. This grid of pixels is called a bitmap.

Short for picture element, referring to a part of a dot made by a scanner or other digital device.

One picture element, or dot, of a frame of video.

Short for picture element - the smallest unit of resolution on a monitor. Commonly used as a unit of measurement.

A tiny patch of an image. Images are normally broken down into a rectangular lattice of square pixels like tiles on a wall, although hexagonal tessellations have also been used.

The smallest single point of light on a display that can be turned on and off. For LED displays, a pixel is the smallest block of light emitting devices that can generate all available colors. For incandescent displays, a pixel is an individual lamp on the matrix.

Acronym for `picture element'; the unit of storage and display in raster mode.

A combined term for picture element, the smallest unit of a video display. Also known as a pel. Pictures on the screen are made up of hundreds of thousands of pixels, combined to form images. A pixel is the smallest segment of a raster line that can be discretely controlled by the display system, and also the coordinate used for defining the horizontal spatial location of pixel within an image. Pixels on a monitor are the illuminated dots of glowing phosphor, the smallest element of a digital image. A pixel size can be no smaller than the spot a monitor can create. In a color monitor, spots consist of a group of triads. Triads are composed of three different phosphors: red, green, and blue. The phosphors are laid along side each other. Pixels can vary in size and shape depending on the monitor and graphics mode. The number of dots on the screen are measured in width-by-height fashion.

A "picture element"; images are made of many tiny pixels. For example, a 13-inch computer screen is made of 307,200 pixels (640 columns by 480 rows).

Picture element. The smallest unit displayable on a computer screen. HTML uses pixels as the standard method of defining the size settings of displayable elements, such as horizontal rules and table borders, rows, and columns. See Pel

Term for 'Picture Element.' Standard VGA monitors display 640 pixels wide by 480 pixels high. Other monitors display even more pixels for greater clarity.

A single dot in a digital image. Images you see on your monitor or in a computer-generated graphic are made up of many pixels.

Abbreviation for Picture Element. The basic unit of an image on a computer or in a CCD.

A segment of a imaging device used to convert light information into an electronic charge equal to the amount of light striking the segment.

Digital images can be represented in the computer as an array of numbers. Each number represents information about the scene at a particular coordinate, usually it is the image grey-value or colour. These numbers can be considered as a sample of the image property at that point. The typical presentation of the image on a screen is as an array of boxes, each coloured according to the sampled value (or values). These sampled values (and their screen representation) are referred to as picture elements or pixels. The smaller the pixel, the higher the picture resolution.

Abbreviation for Picture Element, a pixel is the smallest element on a display screen. Images on a computer screen are made up of hundreds to thousands of pixels, and the screen’s resolution is determined by the size, number, and closeness of these pixels.

Picture Element: digital photographs are defined of thousands of tiny dots that are called pixels. Put them all together and they form a digital photo.

A dot or picture element on a computer screen.

Single dot on a computer display, short for picture element.

Picture Cell All computer screen or printed images are made up of pixels, small square dots - the smaller the pixels, the higher the image quality.

One of the many tiny dots that represent a picture in a computerâ€(tm)s memory. Because pixels are so small and so numerous, they appear as a smooth, single image when displayed on paper or a computer monitor. Pixels vary in color and intensity.

A contraction of picture element. A pixel is a point on a display screen. It is the smallest portion that may be set or changed.

(Short for picture elements) A pixel is an individual picture element of the two dimensional array that forms the digital image.

is a logical dot on a display, which can be driven to any of the specified colors. It is composed of 3 subpixels colored red, green and blue.

One of the small units that make up an image on a computer or television screen. It is derived from the words picture and element to make pixel.

Picture Element -- the fundamental unit of computer graphics. A pixel is a square of color and transparency information used to draw on the screen. Each pixel in your photo will be represented by a 1x1 brick.

A pixel refers to an individual area on the surface of the imaging device, normally a CCD. It is made from photosensitive material which converts light into electrical energy. In the context of a display monitor, a pixel is also referred to as an individual area on the surface of the screen which converts electrical energy to visible light.

Picture element; the smallest individual unit or piece of a video display image.

a "picture element" or single point of color in a raster image

The smallest distinguishable and resolvable area in a video image. A single point on the screen. In digital video, a single sample of the picture. Derived from the words picture element

Picture element. A pixel is a single point in a graphic image or screen. Pixels are arranged in rows and columns. See " Pixel resolution."

Picture Element. The smallest spot on the screen that a computer can address.

PI(X)cture ELement. The smallest unit of graphics that a video adaptor generates, usually about the size of a pinpoint. Pixels can be of nearly any color depending on the capabilities of the adaptor.

A dot of light that appears on the computer screen. A collection of pixels forms characters and images on the screen. Think of a pixel as a single peg in a Lite Brite toy.

It refers to how monitors divide the display screen into thousands or millions of individual dots. A pixel is one of those dots.

Short for Picture Element. The smallest unit of the computer display screen.

A single square in a graphic image (short for Picture Element).

Pixel is short for picture element. A point (dot) on the graphics screen. It is the smallest definable unit of a digital image. Each pixel represents a single point in the image. The number of pixels per unit distance (dot-per-inch or DPI for instance) within a digital image is referred to as the resolution of the image. A pixel can be binary, gray, or color, or can be an index into a palette. Binary pixels require only one binary digit or bit of computer memory to store; gray, color and indexed pixels use more bits with 4, 8, and 24 being common values for the number of bits (bit depth) used.

Abbreviation for PICture ELement. One of the tiny squares of color that makes up a digital photo. Pixels are laid out in a grid, like tiles in a mosaic.

Acronym for picture element, a pixel is one dot of a screen image—the smallest picture sample that can be sensed, manipulated, or produced. There are usually 72 (Macintosh) or 96 (Windows) pixels in an inch. Graphics are created by turning pixels on or off.

Derived fronm 2 words: picture element. The smallest dot that can be diplayed on a computer screen. Tiny squares of colour are arranged in rows and columns to produce an image on a computer screen. Everything you see on your monitor is displayed using pixels. Also, the building blocks of a digital photo. The more pixels per inch, the higher the resolution of the photo.

short for picture element. These are the individual colored dots that make up a graphic image on a computer screen.

The pixel is the smallest part of a digital image. Pixel comes from the term picture element. Also used in measuring image size. Pixels are dimensional having a horizontal and vertical size measured in microns. Their depth is measured in bits. (see bit-depth).

A contraction of the words picture element. The smallest unit of information in a raster based format. A grid cell.

Short for picture element, the smallest resolvable point of a raster image which is the basic unit of digital imaging. Also referred to as a pel.

Shortened form of "picture element." The smallest element of the CID detector used for imaging and data acquisition.

One of the many "dots" that make up a digital image; this dot can be only one color, but when displayed next to other dots of differing colors can produce a unique colorful image.

The smallest unit of color on a computer screen. High resolution devices have more pixels per square inch.

The smallest addressable unit on a computer screen.

Picture element (see Dot/Pixel). A - D | E - H | I - L | M - P | Q - T | U - Z

A term made from the words picture element to describe a spot on a computer screen capable of changing color or shade. Modern graphical screens may have more than a million pixels.

A single point in a graphic image. Graphics monitors display pictures using thousands (or millions) of pixels, arranged in rows and columns. A screen size of 800 x 600 means that the screen is 800 pixels across and 600 pixels from top to bottom.

A single display element for a graphics device (screen).

A single element within a digital photograph. The typical digital photograph is made up of several million pixels.

A tiny picture element that contains red, green and blue information for color rendering on a monitor or a scanner. When generating colors, pixels are similar to dots of ink on paper. A monitor resolution description in terms of pixels per inch (ppi.) is similar to a printer resolution description in terms of dots per inch (dpi).

The term "pixel" is actually short for "Picture Element." Computer displays, whether they are flat-screens (LCD) or tube monitors (CRT), are made up of pixels. The screen is divided up into a matrix of thousands or even millions of pixels.

picture element in a satellite or data image.

A single dot on a monitor or computer display.

picture element, were the higher the number of picture elements in the display, the higher resolution of the display

Picture element. The smallest unit (point) of an image displayed on screen. The quality of an image depends on the number of pixels per inch that make up the image.

One dot in a video or still image. A typical low-resolution computer screen is 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels tall. Digital video movies are often 320 pixels wide and 240 pixels tall.

picture element; a tiny dot in a digital image composed of a set of such dots

A color controllable dot on a display screen.

The smallest and most commonly used screen-dependent measure of screen distance. Objects on a form, however, generally aren't sized and located via pixels because the number of pixels on a screen varies for different resolutions and for different types of display systems. See twip.

Abbreviation for Picture Element, that is to say, each individual "dot" that makes up the image.

picture cell (one dot on a display)

Picture element; the smallest area of a video picture capable of being delineated by an electrical signal. The number of pixels in a complete picture determines the amount of detail or resolution in the picture. In the United States the TV picture generally holds a maximum of 150,000 pixels.

(Picture Element): The basis of all digital images, a pixel is a tiny square dot of digital data. A collection of pixels creates an image.

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Computer term for picture element. Each dot on the screen that makes up an image is called a pixel. Each character on the screen is displayed within a 8 X 8 grid of pixels. The entire screen is composed of a 320 X 200 pixel grid. In bit-map mode, each pixel corresponds to one bit in the computer's memory.

Also PEL, picture element. The smallest unit of information in an image

The microscopic photo-sensitive sites on a CCD image sensor of which there are hundreds of thousands.

A single dot displayed by a computer. E.g. your screen size has an 800 x 600 pixel resolution.

picture element A pixel is the smallest area that can be displayed on a monitor. Pictures are made up of lines of different-coloured pixels. Your screen resolution is the amount of pixels your monitor is displaying at a time.

Picture Element. In computer graphics, the smallest element of a display space that can be independently assigned color or intensity.

(Picture Element) The smallest part of a video picture. The greater the number of pixels the greater the resolution and picture sharpness will be.

Short for picture element. The smallest graphic unit that can be displayed on the screen, usually a single-colored dot.

Pixel is a contraction for Picture Element. Everything on your computer screen is made up of thousands of tiny little dots. Each dot is called a pixel. The more pixels used to draw your screen, the higher the resolution. A resolution of 1024x768 means that your monitor is using 1024 pixels across your screen and 768 pixels down. This is a total of 786,432 pixels used to display the image.

Short for picture element. The smallest element in a displayed image. A color pixel is a combination of red, green and blue subpixels. Total pixels are usually expressed in horizontal x vertical dimensions (e.g. 640 x 480).

Term created by joining the words picture and cell, a pixel is the basic unit of measurement for picture displays. Computer screen size is often measured in pixels, with 640x480 and 800x600 being common measurements.

Picture element. Digital images are composed of touching pixels, each having a specific color or tone.

Short for "picture element". Your monitor's screen is organized into a grid of thousands of pixels. When some of these pixels are colored, they form the shapes you see on the screen. Pixels are very small. One pixel is about the size of a period.

A pixel (short for picture element), is the smallest unit of space on the surface of a CCD. It picks up an electrical charge and determines the color density of an image by how strong the charge is. The higher the pixel count, the sharper and brighter the image.

The smallest element of a raster image -- one dot. Abbreviation (more or less) of picture element.

the smallest graphic element of an image that makes up the overall picture

The smallest element assigned to an independent color and intensity and displayed on a laptop monitor screen. A pixel is a dot with either a square or rectangular shape.

A combination of the words "picture" and "element," denoting the smallest part of a picture that can be located and placed as an element along the X and Y axes of a bitmap or on the computer screen. A pixel can be monochrome or up to the pixel depth available on your color system. Pixels are also used for identifying screen or print resolutions, e.g. 72 pixels square inch.

A pixel is the smallest element that makes up an image.

An abbreviation of picture element. The minimum size area on the ground detectable by a remote sensing device. The size varies depending on the type of sensor.

Shorthand for "picture element." A camera's CCD consists of several hundred thousand pixels, each one building up a tiny charge of electricity in response to the light that falls on it. More pixels on a CCD will improve resolution.

is often referred to as dot, as in "dots per inch". "Pixel" is short for picture elements, which make up an image, similar to grains in a photograph or dots in a half-tone. Each pixel can represent a number of different shades or colors, depending on how much storage space is allocated for it. Pixels per inch (ppi) is sometimes the preferred term, as it more accurately describes the digital image.

Picture element. The smallest unit of a bitmapped image as displayed on a computer monitor.

In electronic imaging, the basic unit of digital imaging.

Pixel is an abbreviated term for Picture Cell which is the smallest set of RGB to which make the picture.

Abbreviation for picture element. Pixels are dots on a computer or television screen that combine to form an image.

A picture element on a display (e.g. TV) Screen.

the smallest bit of digital information in your digital picture file. ( see MegaPixel) Close Window

Short for Picture Element. A pixel is the smallest area of a television picture capable of being delineated by an electrical signal passed through the vision system. The number of picture elements (pixels) in a complete picture, and their geometric characteristics of vertical height and horizontal width, provides information on the total amount of detail that the can be displayed.

Stands for picture elements. Pixels are the tiny dots of information that make up a digital image. The more pixels there are on the camera’s image sensor (CCD or CMOS), the higher the image resolution is. The higher the resolution, the clearer a video image or an enlarged print is.

a picture element, or "dot". All digital photographs comprise an array of x pixels by y pixel with each pixel being the smallest unit of the picture.

The smallest graphic unit on the screen. Also known as picture elements.

PICture ELement. The smallest point of light or colour of an image.

The smallest picture element which can be manipulated by software. The individual "bit" in bit-mapped.

Individual dots that make up an image, like the dots on a television screen or a newspaper photo.

One picture element of a uniform raster or grid file. Often used synonymously with cell.

The pixel is the smallest part of a digitised or Digital Image. Also used in measuring image size and resolution, i.e., 640 x 480 is the pixel resolution of the (largely obsolete) VGA Monitors. Most monitors now are 1024 x 768 or better. Note: pixels are square in computers and rectangular in video

A single picture element. The smallest element in a graphic image. Pixels are combined with other pixels to make up a graphic image. Picture quality increases as the number of pixels increase in a measured area of an image.

A short of Picture Element and refers to a small square of an image, the smallest unit of an image. The square is filled with a colour. Thousands of these small squares sitting next to eachother make up your digital image.

Picture Element. Photo sensor site in a image sensor like CCD chip; converts the input light image to an electronic signal.

The same as "dot."

A single dot of light. A pixel can be composed of either a single LED or a cluster of LEDs. Pixel size can vary. A large pixel size will give you better fill with the electronic message center. The image to the left represents how a 7Hx5W pixel matrix is composed of pixels that are made from a cluster of 7 LEDs.

Small dot on a scan line. Images on the monitor are made up of pixels.

abbreviation for "picture element." The smallest, most basic component of an image on a display screen. A pixel is comparable to an individual dot in a printed photograph. The number of pixels in an image determines its resolution.

A pixel is one of the many tiny dots that make up the representation of a picture in a computer's memory or screen.

Picture element. A pixel is the smallest piece of display detail that has a unique brightness and color. In a digital image, a pixel is an individual point in the image, represented by a certain number of bits to indicate the brightness.

Refers to picture element. Is the most basic element in an image or grid map. The words PIXEL and CELL are often used interchangeably in the GIS field.

A single dot is within a digital photograph. The typical photograph is made up of thousands of pixels.

Picture element. The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen, which typically display 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 pixels.

Also called pel or picture element. The smallest graphic unit that can be displayed on the screen, usually a single-colored dot. Pel is abbreviated from picture element.

Abbreviation for picture element, the smallest element of the picture that can be displayed on the screen. Each pixel contains one red, one blue, and one green phosphor.

The dots any picture is made up of.

Picture element; a single dot and smallest element in a visual display.

This is the smallest addressable display unit available at a given video addressability. There is no physical thing on a display that can be called a pixel. Pixels exist only in the graphics controller bitmap. The screen image in the bitmap is composed of an array of pixels, arranged in a rectilinear fashion, with the X axis running horizontally, perpendicular to the Y axis. A pixel consists of intensity only (in grayscale monitors) or colour and intensity information (red, green & blue in colour). While a pixel usually corresponds to a square or rectangular area, it is displayed as a number of spots on a CRT. One pixel usually consists of 1.2 or more dot triads. Flat panel displays are a special case where individual pixels correspond directly to a picture element on the display.

abbreviation for picture element. One of the thousands of tiny "dots" that serve to make up the display portion of a computer screen.

Picture element or the smallest visual unit in a grid of numbers that make up an image as a whole.

All graphics primitives are drawn to a canvas by writing pixels to specific locations. Pixels may be 8 bits (typical for PseudoColour displays) or 24 bits (for TrueColour and DirectColour displays). Other sizes are possible, but not common.

A data collection interval, or pixel, is approximately 19.7 seconds in length, but can vary over the course of mapping. This is a much different definition for the word "pixel" than is used in image processing, traditional image manipulations, or visual camera terminology, where a pixel (or picture element) is equal to the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot). In this case, a pixel is a geographic region of the planet's surface over which the instruments have collected data (spectra) for the approximate interval.

Pixel a combination of the words “picture and element.” A pixel is the smallest element of raster display, i.e., a picture cell with specific color and/or brightness.

A tiny picture element that contains red, green and blue information for color rendering on a monitor or scanner. Pixels on a screen are similar to dots of ink on paper. Monitor resolution is described in terms of pixels-per-inch (ppi), while printer resolution is measured in dots-per-inch (dpi).

Short for "PICture ELement." Essentially, a single "dot", either on a computer screen or on a paper printout. In general terms, the more pixels in a given image, whether a picture or a letter, the better it looks. On the other hand, the more pixels in an image, the more data it takes to store and transmit the image.

one individual, discrete point on a computer screen, the smallest element of the image made on a screen. (See raster image.)

Pic ture El ement, used mainly in graphics and video circles, is the smallest unit of display that can be given colour and intensity values or codes. The larger the number of bits per pixel, the higher the range of colors that can be displayed.

the smallest graphical unit in a graphical user interface. A coloured dot on the screen. There are 480 by 640 pixels on a standard VGA screen.

the smallest portion of a picture for which information is stored. Pixels are made up of bits.

pi cture el ement or smallest component of a digital image

Contraction of Picture and Element. Any of the small discrete elements that together constitute an image (as on a computer or television screen or CRT), or any of the detecting elements of a charge-coupled device used as an optical sensor in a digital camera. Each one has a specific color and is contiguous to the next to form a color image.

The smallest indivisible part of a video image.

Short for picture element; the smallest unit that makes up an image. Each pixel can represent a number of different shades or colours, depending on how much storage space is allocated for it. Also used in measuring image size and resolution.

The smallest addressable point on a VDU. One pixel is one of the dots forming the dot matrix on the screen of a VDU. The commonest monitors use a 640 by 480 pixel grid.

Acronym for picture element. Pixels are the individual elements in a digitized image array.

The smallest unit in a digital image. A satellite image is made up of a matrix of many pixels, each having its own digital value. (Related words: image, digital analysis)

From "PICture ELement," a pixel is the smallest building block of a Web page. Computer monitors divide the display screen into thousands or millions of individual dots, called pixels. A 640-by-480 screen is capable of displaying 640 distinct dots on each of its 480 lines, or about 300,000 pixels.

One dot on a computer screen. Most computer monitors typically range from either 640 (pixels wide) by 480 (pixels high) to 1600 by 1200.

A unit of measurement for graphics or monitor resolution. A pixel is one dot on a computer screen. Most computer monitors are set to a resolution of 800 x 600, meaning 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels high.

Pixel is an acronym for picture element. A computer's screen is made up of thousands of these colored dots of light that, when combined, can produce a photographic image. A digital photograph's resolution, or visual quality, is measured by the width and height of the image measured in pixels.

An abbreviation for picture element. One of the elements in a large array holding information that represents a picture. Pixels contain data giving brightness and possibly color at particular points in the picture.

Contraction of "picture element"; the area on the ground represented by each digital number in a digitized image; an individual element in a detector.

Picture element - the smallest element in a television picture

Abbreviation for picture element, a single cell of a bitmap.

picture element. We distinguish between logical pixels (as quantities without dimension) and physical pixels, which represent physical quantities (i.e. the width and height of a rectangular part of the sensing area of the CCD chip). The notions of aspect ratio and "squareness" apply only to physical pixels.

"Picture element" smallest area or element of an image map.

A fancy word for a dot on the screen.

Pixel is a abbreviation of Picture Element. It is the smallest element of a display.

One of a regular array of cells in a collection of raster data - a picture element. For example, the spatial accuracy of a satellite image can be described in terms of the area covered by each pixel on the ground

Pi cture El ement (pronounced "PIX-il", or sometimes "pix-EL"), a single dot in a graphic or on a monitor, used as a unit of measure. See dots per inch, dot pitch.

short for "picture element". The smallest discrete element which makes up an image.

The smallest picture element making up the computer video display.

A small single element of a digital image [PICture ELement].

the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot); "the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution" [syn: pel, picture element] Source: Hyperdictionary.

Individual square picture element of a digital image display, being the two-dimensional representation in HU of a voxel within the scanned slice. Pixel size is determined by the diameter of the field of view and the number of elements in the display matrix.

The smallest distinct unit of a bitmapped image displayed on a screen

Picture element: one "dot" on a display screen.

A contraction of the words picture element. Pixel refers to the smallest unit of information available in an image or raster map that can be independently assigned attributes such as colour and intensity.

An individual dot of color in a computer graphics image.

The pixel is the smallest part of a digitized or digital image. Also used in measuring image size a,d resolution.

Short for Picture Element, a dot generated by a computer screen, scanner or other digital device in order to reproduce an image.

Stands for one picture element (one dot on a computer monitor); commonly used as a unit of measurement.

Picture Element. A little square that can be seen when a graphics image is enlarged. The more pixels in an image, the better its resolution. By dividing pixels into even smaller units, researchers improved font display resolutions by as much as 300%.

one dot on a screen. From "picture element".

An abbreviation of the term 'picture element.' A pixel is the smallest picture element of a digital image. Display resolution described as being 640x480 has 640 pixels across the screen and 480 down the screen, for a total of 307,200 pixels. The higher the number or pixels, the higher the screen resolution.

The smallest location size on a display or in memory. The incremental location of picture information in either horizontal or vertical direction (also called a Pel).

Abbreviation for Picture Element, the smallest nondivisible image-forming unit of a plot or video display. Each cell can have assigned attributes, in addition to color. In raster processing, pixels refer to a single cell within a matrix of grid cells.

Picture element of a digital image data set corresponding to a specific area of ground. ()

Picture element provided by a single detector scene sample output.

"Picture element," the smallest addressable component of an image; one "dot".

the smallest unit of a screen or video picture, and that of a CCD chip.

short for picture element, a pixel is a measurement representing a single point in a graphic in which most ad units are measured

Short for "picture element." A camcorder's CCD consists of several hundred thousand pixels, each one building up a tiny charge of electricity in response to the light it "sees." The more pixels a CCD has, the higher its resolution, and the better the resulting picture. Keep in mind that the CCD's actual pixel count is often greater than the effective pixel count — the number of pixels used to capture the image.

Short for picture element. A pixel is the smallest logical unit of visual information that can be used to build an image.Pixels are the little squares that can be seen when a graphics image is enlarged.The more pixels in an image, the better its resolution.

A pixel is the smallest area that can be displayed on a monitor. Your screen resolution is the amount of pixels your monitor is displaying at a time. A pixel is the smallest unit of an image displayed on screen. The quality of an image depends on the number of pixels per inch that make up the image.

An abbreviation of picture element, the smallest component part of a digital image.

A very tiny dot of information that is displayed on a picture or screen. Refer to Resolution.

from ‘picture element’ – the smallest point in a screen image. See also resolution.

An abbreviation for picture element, a pixel is the smallest individual dot that can be displayed on a computer screen.

One spot in a rectilinear grid of thousands of such spots that are individually "painted" to form an image produced on the screen by a computer or on paper by a printer. A pixel is the smallest element that display software can manipulate in creating letters, numbers, or graphics.

A "picture element", the smallest area on the screen that can be manipulated by graphics programs. Screen resolutions are often expressed in pixels, e. g. 800×600 pixel displays are common.

A single picture element such as a dot on a page or a point of light on computer screen.

The smallest unit of data in a digital image. Together, the small discrete elements constitute an image that can be seen on a monitor or printed on a substrate. A pixel's code contains information relating to color and placement within the larger image.

Picture element. The smallest element in a visual display.

A contraction of the words picture element. The smallest unit of information in an image or raster map. Referred to as a cell in an image or grid.

The smallest unit on a display screen. The higher the pixel resolution, the more information can be displayed. Acronym for picture element.

Short for picture element, one spot in a rectilinear grid of thousands of such spots that form an image produced on the screen by a computer or on paper by a printer. A pixel is the smallest element that display or print hardware and software can manipulate to create letters, numbers, or graphics. A pixel is also called a pel. See also: screen resolution

An acronym for picture element -- the smallest display element on a video display screen.

The smallest discernible element of data from a computer-generated image.

An acronym for Picture Element. when an image is defined by many tiny dots, those dots are pixels. A pixel represents the smallest graphic unit of measurement on a screen. The actual size of a pixel is screen-dependent, and varies according to the size of the screen and the resolution being used.

The smallest independent unit of a digital image. The resolution of a digital image is defined by the number of pixels used to create the image and the number of bits used to represent each pixel (color depth).

A pixel is a unique position on a display that consists of a single dot for mono, or group of three dots (red, green and blue) for colour. Total display pixels are usually expressed in horizontal x vertical dimension (e.g., 640x480).

This is the smallest unit visible on a video display. Each pixel presents the intensity of a black, red, green or blue color dot or rectangle on the screen. Flat panel displays show individual pixels corresponding directly to a picture element on the display. Typical screen resolutions range from 96 to 212 dots per inch.

A single picture element of a digital photo. Digital Bitmap images (raster images) use a grid of colours known as pixels to represent images. Each pixel is assigned a specific location and colour value.The whole image would contain millions of individual pixels.

'Picture element'. An image data element having both spatial and spectral aspects. The spatial variable defines the apparent size of the resolution cell (that is, the area on the ground represented by the data values), and the spectral variable defines the intensity of the spectral response for that cell in a particular image channel (see resolution cell, instantaneous field of view).

Abbreviation for Picture Element, the basic building block for digital pictures, it is the smallest resolvable spot in the image which can be of various colors. Typical computer monitor image sizes are 640 by 480 and 800 by 600 pixels, horizontal and vertical.

The smallest graphical element displayable by a computer. Unlike other measurements, pixels are finite, determining the resolution of an image, rather than its physical size.

picture element, that is, a single element of an image or picture. A pixel is the smallest element of a picture. Other elements are rows, columns, and subframes, which are rectangular regions of the image or picture.

A pixel is the information stored for a single grid point in an image, or screen. A complete image is an array of pixels. When designing website pages, the pixel is the only practical measurement, as inches, centimetres etc. are no longer applicable. This is because of the vast range of users monitors that will be used to display the final design. A typical monitor is capable of displaying a range of pixels between 640 x 480 pixels up to 1600 x 1200 pixels. Wide screen and high definition monitors will be able to display greater numbers of pixels. Investing in a good quality monitor that shows accurate and sharp pixels is a must if you use your computer much at all

One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image on a computer.

A digital image is made up of small continuous tone spots called pixels. The word pixel is derived from the words Picture Element. In an RGB image (with a Bit Depth of 24) each pixel can be any one of 16.7 million colors/tones. Each pixel is made up of three color channels (Red Green & Blue) and each channel can be any one of 256 levels of tone (256 x 256 x 256 = 16777216)

The elements of a radiograph. Each pixel of a digital image may be represented by one of up to 1024 shades of gray. A black and white television picture represents 256 shades of gray by way of comparison.

The smallest picture element (used to display an image on a computer), that can be independently assigned a color.

Short for "picture element", the smallest unit in a digital image, appearing as a dot on the computer screen. Digital images are measured in pixel size dimensions (e.g., a "100 x 200" image, 100 pixels wide by 200 pixels high). In Web multimedia, each pixel in an image can be defined as a hypermedia anchor (a technique known as image mapping), providing a link to another image, file, or document on the Web.

The smallest controllable segment of a display. Also known as picture element.

(PICTure ELement): A single addressable location on a computer display, a pixel is the most primitive individual element for controlling graphics (it's also how image maps are measured and specified).

Picture Element. A dot. One step/addressable position in the total TV or CRT presentation. The minimum VGA display has 307,200 pixels (640 by 480).

Short for Picture Element. The basic unit from which a video or computer picture is made. Essentially a dot with a given color and brightness value. The more pixels the higher the resolution of the picture.

The basic picture element of a computer screen or digital graphics device. The smallest dot a computer can generate.

Short for picture element, a pixel is generally a rectangular unit of a scene. With respect to CCD cameras, pixel count is not a measure of resolution.

picture element) The smallest element on a display surface, like a video screen, that can be assigned independent characteristics (color and brightness).

A pixel (short for picture element, using the common abbreviation "pix" for "picture") is a single point in a graphic image. Each such information element is not really a dot, nor a square, but an abstract sample. With care, pixels in an image can be reproduced at any size without the appearance of visible dots or squares; but in many contexts, they are reproduced as dots or squares and can be visibly distinct when not fine enough.