Pixel (or Pel)

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Pixel (or Pel) – A shortened version of ‘Picture cell’ or ‘Picture element’. The name given to one element of picture information. The word pixel is used refer to an individual sample of R, G, B, luminance or chrominance, or sometimes to a collection of such samples or for the number of photosites on a camera sensor, so the term is used quite loosely.