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What is "picture element"

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picture element

n. (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot); "the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution" [syn: pixel, pel]

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Each number represents part of the position of a pixel, or picture element, millions of which go together to form a shape.

Soon other pictures came into being, each picture element radioed individually back to Earth.

To characterize aft possible shades of gray and colors of such dots requires about 20 bits per picture element.