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Is it pixelated or pixilated?
Pixelated is used to describe digital images in which individual pixels are discernable, as when you look closely at a large photo and can see the tiny dots that make up the image. Pixilated (coined from pixie, a pixie being a cheerful, mischievous sprite) is usually used to describe things considered whimsical, or people who seem dazed or lost in thought. While pixelated is a late 20th century coinage, pixilated has been in use since the mid-19th century.
Examples of pixel in a Sentence
Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 18 Apr. 2024
More pixels per inch creates a higher quality image, while fewer pixels results in lower resolutions.
—Jack Byram, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2024
The Fire Tablet features a 10.1-inch full HD display with more than two million dazzling pixels.
—Tim Chan, Variety, 23 Mar. 2024
The score drops off at 742mm and f/11-16 (1,900-1,700 lines), but that makes sense given that the R7's sensor uses physically smaller pixels than the R5 (diffraction sets in earlier in the f-stop sequence).
—PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
The retro pixel art, soothing soundtrack and choose-your-own-adventure style of gameplay may be some of the reasons adults love to play.
—The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2024
Start with a field of random pixels—a rectangle of snow.
—Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
The number of backlight LEDs is still far less than the total number of pixels by a magnitude of at least three, though, so some light bloom can still occur on the edges of high-contrast objects.
—PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Resolution Pixels are what makes up a digital photograph, with image resolution being composed of pixels per inch of an image.
—Jack Byram, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2024
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“Pixel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pixel. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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pixel
noun
from pix, an altered form of pictures, and element
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