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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pixel/#m1)

2) Pixels are also a way of measuring screen or picture size: 1,920 pixels wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pixel/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pixel/#x1)
- We made pixel art of a cat on squared paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pixel/#x2)
- My camera takes 12-megapixel photos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pixel/#x3)
- The image went blocky and pixelated when I stretched it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pixel/#x4)
- Each pixel can show millions of colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pixel/#x5)
- A picture 8 pixels by 8 pixels has 64 pixels in total. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pixel/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/11/)
- [A pixel is one tiny dot of a digital picture.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/12/)
- [Seen from Voyager 1 six billion kilometres away, the whole Earth was a pale blue dot smaller than a single pixel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/5-the-earth-as-a-planet/4/)
- [The screen shows the results with millions of tiny dots called pixels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/36-computers-and-screens/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pixel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pixel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.