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pixel-perfect

pixel-perfect adjective: involving precision at the pixel level.

Adjective

pixel-perfect (comparative more pixel-perfect, superlative most pixel-perfect)

  1. Involving precision at the pixel level.
    • It was the first (and, indeed, practically the only one to this day) to have an animated loading screen, the first to have pixel-perfect collision detection […]1991, Stuart Campbell, “The YS Official Top 100 Part 1”, in Your Sinclair
    • Manual pixel-perfect collision-detection routines can be difficult to create and processor-intensive to run.2003, Colin Moock, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide
  2. Having precise dimension ratios in all aspects on well-defined drawing glyphs.

Forms of pixel-perfect

comparativemore pixel-perfect
superlativemost pixel-perfect

Questions about pixel-perfect

What does pixel-perfect mean?
Pixel-perfect means involving precision at the pixel level.
What part of speech is pixel-perfect?
Pixel-perfect is an adjective.

Words near pixel-perfect in the dictionary

  1. pixel shifting
  2. pixel tracking
  3. pixel-hunting
  4. pixel-peeper
  5. pixel-peepers
  6. pixel-perfect
  7. pixelate
  8. pixelated
  9. pixelates
  10. pixelating
  11. pixelation

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