pictel

English

Etymology

From picture element.

Noun

pictel (plural pictels)

  1. (dated, computer graphics) A pixel.
    • 1975, Biosciences Communications (page 284)
      By the time the scan is completed, the ACTA numbers of all the pictels have been computed and are stored in the computer's memory.
    • 1978, Derek Allan Holton, Jennifer Seberry, Combinatorial mathematics: proceedings
      Pseudo-color computer graphics displays identify the color of each pictel by a three-dimensional vector whose nonnegative elements specify the relative intensities of the three primary colors […]

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