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Is it pixelated or pixilated?
Pixelated is used to describe digital images in which individual pixels are discernable, as when you look closely at a large photo and can see the tiny dots that make up the image. Pixilated (coined from pixie, a pixie being a cheerful, mischievous sprite) is usually used to describe things considered whimsical, or people who seem dazed or lost in thought. While pixelated is a late 20th century coinage, pixilated has been in use since the mid-19th century.
Examples of pixel in a Sentence
JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
The display area matches the size of a human pupil and achieves a resolution beyond 25,000 pixels per inch (ppi), which is about 150 times denser than most smartphone screens.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
The 8-mm manual focusing lens has a resolution of 256 × 192 pixels, which can be enhanced to simulate 512 × 384 pixels.
—New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
That’s more than the Vision Pro’s 23-million-pixel setup, though Apple doesn’t specify the per-eye resolution for its headset.
—PC Magazine, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Pixel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pixel. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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pixel
noun
from pix, an altered form of pictures, and element
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