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One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.
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One of the squares that make up a pixel art work or a zoomed in image in a computer.
Examples of pixels in a Sentence
Raster images reflect the pattern of colored pixels on the computer screen.
In all transparent pixels the color will be replaced by the specified color.
All pixels with data values within 2 standard deviations of the mean are averaged.
I recently bought a DL2 at the nice Jessops price and have just noticed 2 hot or stuck pixels just off-centre of the frame.
Gordon et al. reports tritium beta efficiencies of 27% for devices having large 1mm 2 pixels.
Specifying exact widths in pixels for tables can make tables too large to fit into the available screen space.
None of the layout tables used in this site exceed a width of 640 pixels.
If you're too close, you're likely to spot individual pixels which can make the displays look coarse and grainy.
These have large, flat-panel screens with red, green, and blue pixels activated by "plasma" energy, creating very bright images.
Equal to one million pixels, a megapixel is a measure of resolution as it pertains to capturing detail.
An ideal number would be 1024 x 768 pixels.
If the second number listed is above 720 pixels, you can be sure it is an HD plasma.
The bigger the screen, the more pixels you'll need horizontally and vertically in order to see a clear image.
Refresh rate is tied to the resolution and refers to the number of times the monitor redraws all of the pixels in the images per second.
It also has extremely good video playback and its resolution is 800 pixels by 480 pixels.
Another Archos product is the Archos 7 which boasts a huge seven inch screen and the same resolution (800 pixels by 480 pixels) as the Archos 5.
The screen is 3.5 inches, it is not a widescreen, and the resolution (480 pixels by 272 pixels) is not as good as pricier models.
Its resolution is 800 pixels by 480 pixels and its video performance is as good as or even better than other PMPs.
Generally speaking, when you adopt a virtual pet you are getting an animal that exists as pixels and code.
Do those pixels actually present sharp images or is there a lot of blur?
High end consumer models are equipped with photosensors that capture up to 22 million pixels.
The reason is that image sensors on compact digital cameras are too small to accommodate large quantities of pixels.
Images were produced at the standard resolution of 320 by 240 pixels or at a higher resolution of 640 by 480 pixels.
A megapixel simply means a million pixels, so a camera with ten megapixels has ten million pixels on the sensor to collect image data.
Megapixels simply means how many million pixels are on the digital image sensor in the camera.
Technically, since the smallest individual picture elements - or "pixels" - in Mattel Football were the hyphens, the game ran at around 8 x 6 resolution.
A 2.9 inch LCD screen capable of displaying 240x160 pixels and 32,768 colors.
When the unit is switched on, the lights illuminate the pixels and allow playing in any light conditions.
Both screens are 3 inches of TFT glory measuring 256 x 192 pixels.
Limited colors and pixels could be used in moving objects, but creator Shigeru Miyamoto wanted Mario to be as animated as possible.
With the crystal clear LCD, you don't even notice pixels or jagged lines, though you may notice a slight slowdown on some games where lots of action is going on.
Get ready to enter the arena and kick some serious pixels with the Super Smash Bros.
The standard size is 40x40 pixels, with the largest being 50x50 pixels.
That's just fine because sprites are just pictures built with blocks (or pixels).
The days of simple entertainment seem to be gone, swallowed by pixels, polygons and processing power.
There are still missing pixels and the water effects are poor, but everything else runs smooth.
As a result, it is important to know the exact resolution of the cell phone display in pixels.
You need to know the exact number of pixels in height and in width.
Many feature phones and other non-smartphones may only have a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, while high end phones can have much higher resolution displays.
The Motorola Droid X, by comparison, has a larger 4.3-inch display with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels.
This feature makes the pixels of each photo indistinguishable to the human eye.
Just choose any image that is 240x320 pixels or 320x240 pixels and orient it accordingly on your phone's home screen!
The more mega pixels a digital camera has, the better the picture quality.
Most digital cameras for kids have less than 3.0 mega pixels.
Digital camera experts suggest that 3.0 mega pixels is good middle ground for decent photo quality and price.
For young children, less than 2.0 mega pixels should be adequate.
Make sure the screen is properly aligned, that the lid opens and closes without any problems, and that there are not any dead or damaged pixels.
A typical web banner ad is 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels high.
Some Web sites also sell a 'jumbo' web banner space that is 728 x 90 pixels.
They are rarely wider than 120 pixels, and can be any height.