pixeln.
/ˈpɪksl/, U.S. /ˈpɪks(ə)l/ Each of the minute areas of uniform illumination of which the image on a television, computer screen, etc., is composed; (also) each of the minute individual elements in a digital image.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] > picture elements, lines, or rasters
picture element1925
line1929
scanning line1929
scanning field1935
scanning raster1935
field1938
line standard1959
pixel1965
1965 F. C. Billingsley in Proc. Soc. Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 3 xv. 3 We have chosen to sample at a 500 KC rate and we define each one of these samples as a picture element or a pixel. We have sampled each pixel with 6-bit accuracy.
1969 Science 15 Aug. 685/1 An analog tape recorder was used to store the analog video signal from each pixel.
1977 New Yorker 14 Feb. 28/1 The [advertising] panel is divided into two thousand and forty-eight ‘pixels’, or picture elements of red, green, blue, and white bulbs, and ordinarily only one or two of the bulbs on a pixel are flashed at a given time.
1989 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. vi. 62/2 They have slow switching speeds... This makes it hard to turn the individual pixels on and off rapidly.
1994 B. Hambly Crossroad iv. 44 Red pixels shifted as the computer framed the image forward through time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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