pixel

pix (“pictures”), + el(ement); often taken to be a blend of “picture” and “element”. The ⟨x⟩ stems from the abbreviation pics being sometimes also written as pix, which has been in use since the 1880s. First attested in 1965.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪksəl/, /ˈpɪksɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪksəl

pixel (plural pixels)

1. One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.
   • 1965 April, Fred C. Billingsley, “Digital Video Processing at JPL”, in Eugene B. Turner, editor, Electronic Imaging Techniques I, Proceedings of SPIE, volume 3, Los Angeles:

     We have chosen to sample at a 500 KC rate and we define each one of these samples as a picture element or pixel. We have sampled each pixel with 6-bit accuracy which is commensurate with the signal/noise ratio and the data accuracy.

   • 2015 August, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal‎^[2], volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127:

     In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.

2. One of the squares that make up a work of pixel art or a zoomed-in image in a computer.

• pel (rare)
• pictel (dated)
• px

• gigapixel
• kilopixel
• macropixel
• megapixel
• micropixel
• terapixel

pixel (third-person singular simple present pixels, present participle pixeling or pixelling, simple past and past participle pixeled or pixelled)

1. To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels.
   • 2006, NFGMan, Character Design for Mobile Devices, page 110:

     Whether he's pixeling for cellphones or PCs, here is one artist who has a unique and imaginative vision.

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pixel”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• pixel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• plexi

Borrowed from English pixel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪk.səl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pi‧xel

pixel m (plural pixels, diminutive pixeltje n)

1. pixel

   Synonym: beeldpunt

• megapixel
• pixelig

Borrowed from English pixel.

• IPA^(key): /pik.sɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

pixel m (plural pixels)

1. (computing) pixel

Borrowed from English pixel.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiksɛl]
• Hyphenation: pi‧xel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

pixel (plural pixelek)

1. (computing) pixel (one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory)

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pixel	pixelek
accusative	pixelt	pixeleket
dative	pixelnek	pixeleknek
instrumental	pixellel	pixelekkel
causal-final	pixelért	pixelekért
translative	pixellé	pixelekké
terminative	pixelig	pixelekig
essive-formal	pixelként	pixelekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pixelben	pixelekben
superessive	pixelen	pixeleken
adessive	pixelnél	pixeleknél
illative	pixelbe	pixelekbe
sublative	pixelre	pixelekre
allative	pixelhez	pixelekhez
elative	pixelből	pixelekből
delative	pixelről	pixelekről
ablative	pixeltől	pixelektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	pixelé	pixeleké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pixeléi	pixelekéi

Possessive forms of pixel
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pixelem	pixeljeim
2nd person sing.	pixeled	pixeljeid
3rd person sing.	pixelje	pixeljei
1st person plural	pixelünk	pixeljeink
2nd person plural	pixeletek	pixeljeitek
3rd person plural	pixeljük	pixeljeik

• megapixel

Borrowed from English pixel, abbreviation of "picture element".

pixel m (definite singular pixelen, indefinite plural pixeler or pixler, definite plural pixelene or pixlene)

1. (computing) alternative form of piksel

The plural forms pixler and pixlene are not listed officially, but are in common use, and also occur in Danish (as pixler and pixlerne).

• “pixel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing from English pixel.

pixel m (plural pixels or (proscribed) pixeis)

1. Alternative form of píxel
   • 1997, Bobbi Linkemer, Secretária eficiente, NBL Editora, →ISBN, page 118:

     Use um protetor de tela cuja função será desgastar cada pixel de sua tela por igual, solicitando-o alternadamente e conferindo movimentos aleatórios. Se não usar esse programa, os pontos coloridos que incidem sempre nos mesmos pixeis da tela por horas contínuas irão consumi-lo apresentando uma descoloração da tela nesses mesmos pontos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

The prescribed adaptation of the unadapted borrowing pixel is píxel, rendering the plural píxeis. Thus, the prescribed plural of pixel is the English plural pixels instead of pixeis, since the later does not correspond to the pronunciation of the word as a paroxytone.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɡsel/ [ˈpiɣ̞.sel]
• Rhymes: -iɡsel
• Syllabification: pi‧xel

pixel m (plural pixeles)

1. Alternative spelling of píxel

• “pixel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

pixel c

1. (computing) a pixel

   Synonym: bildpunkt

• pixel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pixel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)