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See pixel.

(graphics)picture element - (pixel) The smallest resolvable rectangular area of an image, either on a screen or stored in memory. Each pixel in a monochrome image has its own brightness, from 0 for black to the maximum value (e.g. 255 for an eight-bit pixel) for white. In a colour image, each pixel has its own brightness and colour, usually represented as a triple of red, green and blue intensities (see RGB).

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And you now have a wide range of options from 1- to 6-megapixels (in digital photos a pixel is a picture element made up of millions of tiny dots that together create an image).
Picture this. (Cyberwise) by Donaldson, Sonya A. / Black Enterprise
The artist, who is based in Berlin and London, has given the pixel--the indivisible picture element whose only information value is color--an entirely new plastic form.
ANGELA BULLOCH by Allen, Jennifer / Artforum International
Many scientists discounted those earlier images because the dark spots usually spanned only one picture element, or pixel, raising the possibility that they stemmed from a problem in the camera.
Is Earth pelted by space snowballs? by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
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