pixel

«pixel» in Mova's school dictionary: one of the tiny coloured dots or squares that make up a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a pixel, pixels)

meaning for a pupil

1) A pixel is one of the tiny coloured dots or squares that make up a picture on a screen or a digital photo. tree →

2) Pixels are also a way of measuring screen or picture size: 1,920 pixels wide. tree →

sense in the lessons

In computing lessons, pupils learn that every screen image is a grid of pixels, each with a colour made from red, green and blue light; more pixels means a sharper picture (higher resolution). Pixel art draws pictures on squared paper or in a computer grid. In maths, a picture 10 pixels wide and 10 high has 100 pixels (area). Phrases: «pixel art», «megapixel», «pixelated», «screen resolution».

examples

• Zoom in on the photo and you can see each pixel. tree →
• We made pixel art of a cat on squared paper. tree →
• My camera takes 12-megapixel photos. tree →
• The image went blocky and pixelated when I stretched it. tree →
• Each pixel can show millions of colours. tree →
• A picture 8 pixels by 8 pixels has 64 pixels in total. tree →

note

Plural: «pixels». «Megapixel» = one million pixels. «Pixelated» (blurry, blocky). Maths: number of pixels = width × height. Short for "picture element".

In the corpora

• Digital zoom just enlarges pixels and loses detail; getting closer or using a real zoom lens gives sharper pictures.
• A pixel is one tiny dot of a digital picture.
• Seen from Voyager 1 six billion kilometres away, the whole Earth was a pale blue dot smaller than a single pixel.
• The screen shows the results with millions of tiny dots called pixels.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pixel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.