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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.
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Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
There is still ample resolution (enough for 6K recording), and the 24MP chip scans its pixels more briskly than a 60MP chip, so moving footage is less prone to show rolling shutter motion distortion and supports higher quality footage without line skipping, pixel binning, or a crop.
—PCMAG, 16 Jan. 2025
The powerful part — the dancing pixels — stirs the nervous system in a way that the advanced part of our brain can neither detect nor control.
—F.k. Plous, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
Nature rendered in pixels and transformed again, the uncannily familiar, made strange and new.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Pixel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pixel. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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pixel
noun
from pix, an altered form of pictures, and element
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