dead pixel

English

Noun

dead pixel (plural dead pixels)

  1. A pixel on an LCD that does not light up.
    Hyponym: defective pixel
    • 2020 October 12, HarryBlank, “The Bowe Decommission, Part Three”, in SCP Foundation‎[1], archived from the original on 28 May 2024:
      Dan was still staring at those teeth. Suddenly, he was staring at a dead pixel in the centre of one of them.

      A dead pixel? In Site-01?

  2. (by extension, video games or computer graphics) a miscolored pixel, usually black, on a sprite where it is otherwise not supposed to be.
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