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spaxel

spaxel noun: a spectral pixel.

Noun (1)

spaxel (plural spaxels)

  1. A spectral pixel.

Noun (2)

spaxel (plural spaxels)

  1. A pixel that is not fixed to a two-dimensional display matrix but can be moved in three spatial dimensions.

Forms of spaxel

pluralspaxels

Origin of spaxel

Blend of space + pixel, introduced in the 2012 paper Spaxels, Pixels in Space: A novel mode of spatial display (Horst Hörtner, Matthew Gardiner, Roland Haring, Christopher Lindinger, Florian Berger).

Questions about spaxel

What does spaxel mean?
Spaxel means a spectral pixel.
What part of speech is spaxel?
Spaxel is a noun.
What is the plural of spaxel?
The plural of spaxel is spaxels.

Words near spaxel in the dictionary

  1. spawnproofs
  2. spawns
  3. Spawnstarion
  4. spawny
  5. spaws
  6. spaxel
  7. spaxels
  8. spay
  9. spayad
  10. spayads
  11. spayard

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