See dead pixel in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "dead pixels",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dead pixel (plural dead pixels)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "58 42",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Electronics",
"orig": "en:Electronics",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
68,
78
]
],
"ref": "2020 October 12, HarryBlank, “The Bowe Decommission, Part Three”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-28:",
"text": "Dan was still staring at those teeth. Suddenly, he was staring at a dead pixel in the centre of one of them.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pixel on an LCD that does not light up."
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "defective pixel"
}
],
"id": "en-dead_pixel-en-noun-r1au5mwV",
"links": [
[
"pixel",
"pixel"
],
[
"LCD",
"LCD"
],
[
"light up",
"light up"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computer graphics",
"orig": "en:Computer graphics",
"parents": [
"Computing",
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Video games",
"orig": "en:Video games",
"parents": [
"Games",
"Mass media",
"Software",
"Recreation",
"Culture",
"Media",
"Computing",
"Human activity",
"Society",
"Communication",
"Technology",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "27 73",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "25 75",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 84",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a miscolored pixel, usually black, on a sprite where it is otherwise not supposed to be."
],
"id": "en-dead_pixel-en-noun-A9SyXtxz",
"links": [
[
"video game",
"video game"
],
[
"computer graphics",
"computer graphics"
],
[
"miscolored",
"miscolored"
],
[
"black",
"black"
],
[
"sprite",
"sprite"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, video games or computer graphics) a miscolored pixel, usually black, on a sprite where it is otherwise not supposed to be."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
"topics": [
"computer-graphics",
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences",
"video-games"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:defective pixel"
],
"word": "dead pixel"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Electronics"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "dead pixels",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dead pixel (plural dead pixels)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
68,
78
]
],
"ref": "2020 October 12, HarryBlank, “The Bowe Decommission, Part Three”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-28:",
"text": "Dan was still staring at those teeth. Suddenly, he was staring at a dead pixel in the centre of one of them.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pixel on an LCD that does not light up."
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "defective pixel"
}
],
"links": [
[
"pixel",
"pixel"
],
[
"LCD",
"LCD"
],
[
"light up",
"light up"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Computer graphics",
"en:Video games"
],
"glosses": [
"a miscolored pixel, usually black, on a sprite where it is otherwise not supposed to be."
],
"links": [
[
"video game",
"video game"
],
[
"computer graphics",
"computer graphics"
],
[
"miscolored",
"miscolored"
],
[
"black",
"black"
],
[
"sprite",
"sprite"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, video games or computer graphics) a miscolored pixel, usually black, on a sprite where it is otherwise not supposed to be."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
"topics": [
"computer-graphics",
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences",
"video-games"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:defective pixel"
],
"word": "dead pixel"
}
Download raw JSONL data for dead pixel meaning in English (1.7kB)
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </p>",
"path": [
"dead pixel"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "dead pixel",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
"path": [
"dead pixel"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "dead pixel",
"trace": "started on line 1, detected on line 1"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"dead pixel"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "dead pixel",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.