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单词 pixelate
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pixelatev.

Brit. /ˈpɪksᵻleɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɪksəˌleɪt/
Forms: 1900s– pixelate, 1900s– pixellate, 1900s– pixilate, 1900s– pixillate.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pixel n., -ate suffix3.
Etymology: < pixel n. + -ate suffix3, after pixilated adj. 2, pixilation n. Compare pixelated adj., pixelation n.
1.
a. transitive. To capture, reproduce, or display (an image) in the form of pixels, esp. so that it appears grainy or lacks resolution. Also intransitive.
ΚΠ
1982 Internat. Conf. Electronic Image Processing 106/2 Observer 3 also showed a significant improvement in moving from 1 to 4 metres for images pixellated on a 64×64 matrix.
1983 Re: Art & C.G. in net.graphics (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Mar. One techno-artist even went so far as to simulate the low resolution graphics of the TRS-80 by blocking, or ‘pixellating’.
1991 Govt. Computer News (Nexis) 15 Apr. 24/4 There are a number of built-in capabilities that allow presenters to fine-tune their displays, including one that pixelates or smooths designated portions of the screen.
2003 N.Y. Mag. 15 Sept. 51/3 A screen called the ‘Groove Tube’—put it over your TV and it pixellates the image into vibrant blocks of color and light.
b. intransitive. Of an image: to break up into a number of discrete pixels.
ΚΠ
1991 Where are Saucer Warp Drives? in rec.arts.startrek (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Aug. In the holodeck scene, Data does not say that he can see the holodeck walls, just that he knew where it was. (Then he throws a rock at it, so that it pixelates.)
1994 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. ii. 1/2 So finely rendered is the detailed landscape that the image ‘dithered’ or began to ‘pixelate’ into a gridlike pattern not unlike what one would expect if a snapshot had been taken through a screen door.
1998 Shutterbug's Outdoor & Nature Photogr. Fall 32/2 The imaging software locates pixels where there appears to be some tonal differences; then it attempts to define an edge between these differences. This may cause the image to ‘pixelate’ or look grainy.
2. transitive. To blur (parts of a televisual or photographic image) by converting into a number of fairly large, indistinct, pixel-like patches, for purposes of censorship or to maintain the anonymity of the subject.
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1991 Re: Cream Lemon in Eng. in rec.arts.anime (Usenet newsgroup) 21 July It [sc. an explicit anime] is not censored at all! But that brings up other problems... Some of the scenes that were pixelated were not fully drawn.
1994 Denver Post 10 Jan. e1/3 Her breasts had indeed been pixilated.
2003 Church Times 28 May 12/3 Of all the British papers, only The Independent pixelated the faces of all prisoners of war, whichever side they came from.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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