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• /ˈpɪk.səl/
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• /ˈpɪk.sɛl/
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• CMU ARPABET: P IH1 K S AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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pix (“pictures”), + el(ement); often taken to be a blend of “picture” and “element”. The ⟨x⟩ stems from the abbreviation pics being sometimes also written as pix, which has been in use since the 1880s. First attested in 1965.

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بِكْسِل (biksil) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Belarusian: пі́ксэль (píkselʹ) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Catalan: píxel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Cherokee: ᏇᎦᏎᎵ (quegaseli) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Chinese Mandarin: 像素 (xiàngsù) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Czech: pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Danish: pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Dutch: pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Esperanto: pikselo — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Esperanto: bildero — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Esperanto: bildopunkto — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Esperanto: rastrumero — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Finnish: pikseli — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Finnish: kuvapiste — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• French: pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• German: Pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• German: Bildpunkt — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• German: Bildelement — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Greek: εικονοστοιχείο (eikonostoicheío) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Greek: εικονοψηφίδα (eikonopsifída) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Hebrew: פִּיקְסֶל (piksel) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Hebrew: פִּיקְסֶלִים (pikselím) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Hungarian: képpont — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Icelandic: díll — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Icelandic: myndeining — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Icelandic: punktur — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Italian: pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Japanese: ピクセル (pikuseru) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Japanese: 画素 (gaso) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Japanese: 絵素 (eso) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Japanese: ドット (dotto) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Kazakh: пиксель (piksel) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Korean: 픽셀 (piksel) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Korean: 화소 (hwaso) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Latvian: pikselis — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Macedonian: пи́ксел (píksel) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Malay: piksel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Māori: pika — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Māori: tongi — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Norwegian Bokmål: piksel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Norwegian Nynorsk: piksel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Polish: piksel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Portuguese: pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Portuguese: píxel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Romanian: pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Russian: пи́ксель (píkselʹ) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Serbo-Croatian: piksel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Sindhi: عَڪسِل (ʻaksil) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Spanish: píxel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Spanish: pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Swedish: pixel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Swedish: bildpunkt — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Thai: พิกเซล (pík-sêo) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Turkish: piksel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Turkish: gözek — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Ukrainian: пі́ксель (píkselʹ) — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Uzbek: piksel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Vietnamese: điểm ảnh — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory
• Walloon: picsel — one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory