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Megapixel vs. Pixel — What's the Difference?

Megapixel vs. Pixel — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Megapixel and Pixel

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Megapixel

One million pixels.

Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, or picture element is a smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device; so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen. Each pixel is a sample of an original image; more samples typically provide more accurate representations of the original.

Megapixel

One million pixels, used as a unit of resolution of digital cameras.
This camera has a resolution of three megapixels.

Pixel

The basic unit of a digital image, representing a single color or level of brightness.

Megapixel

(preceded by a cardinal number) Having a resolution of the specified number of megapixels.
This is a three-megapixel camera.
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Pixel

One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.

Pixel

One of the squares that make up a pixel art work or a zoomed in image in a computer.

Pixel

To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels.

Pixel

(computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot);
The greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution

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