pixelize

present singular third person pixelizes · participle present pixelizing · participle past pixelized · past pixelized

1. intransitivetransitivecomputer graphicsTo pixelate; to convert into pixels.

   Aftenposten’s editor-in-chief, Espen Egil Hansen, said the newspaper had received a message from Facebook asking it to “either remove or pixelize” the photograph.

   2016 September 9, Alice Ross, Julia Carrie Wong, “Facebook deletes Norwegian PM's post as ‘napalm girl’ row escalates”, in The Guardian

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   Vector graphics are resolution-independent and can be scaled to any size without losing detail, whereas a bitmap image is resolution-dependent and can pixelize when printed beyond its resolution parameters.

   2006, Eddie Tapp, Photoshop Workflow Setups, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 169