"texel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: texels [plural]
Etymology: Blend of texture + element, by analogy with pixel. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|texture|element}} Blend of texture + element, {{m|en|pixel}} pixel Head templates: {{en-noun}} texel (plural texels)
  1. (computer graphics) An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be repeated to tile a region of the display. Wikipedia link: Texel (graphics) Categories (topical): Computer graphics Related terms: texton, pixel, voxel, triangle Translations (image representing the smallest unit of a texture): tekseli (Finnish), kuviointialkio (Finnish), texel [masculine] (French), texel [masculine] (Italian)

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