Synonyms for pixel
ˈpɪk səl, -sɛlpix·el

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1. pixelnoun

   Synonyms:
   pel

2. pixelnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   pel

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.6 / 5 votes

1. pixel, pel, picture elementnoun

   (computer science) 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"

   Synonyms:
   picture element, pel

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   • Computer Science

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1. List of paraphrases for "pixel":

   pixels

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1. List of known nicknames for "Pixel":

   Eli Biton, Jon Egeskov

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. pixel

   Synonyms:
   Picture element

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1. Van Dokkum:

   It leads to a different way of looking at galaxies, where we always seen them as completely static in the sky, unchanging on human time scales, in fact, they are shimmering. They are shimmering constantly. Every pixel in the image is getting brighter and fainter and they are not constant at all, which is sort of a different way of almost thinking about the light in the universe.

2. Jeff Meyer:

   pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

3. Van Dokkum:

   Normally, you wouldn’t be able to detect the light of an individual star in that pixel, but because these pulsating stars are so bright and the pulsation is so strong, we could see that about a quarter of the pixels of the image changed their brightness. They changed it because the pixels contain these pulsating stars.

4. David McQueen:

   Google never intended Google Pixel to be Google Pixel, the idea was that they would use the Pixel devices to showcase the Google Android ecosystem, demonstrating to their partners what could be done with top-end hardware and the latest Android software.

5. Joaquin Quinonero Candela:

   It’s somewhere in some photo [collection] a friend of mine took but in a few years I will have forgotten who took it, we’re doing research on cracking the image open and understanding it at the individual pixel level. This is called image segmentation. We’re building the ability to understand the individual objects that compose an image.