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Definition: Pel |
PelNoun1. (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot); "the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
"Pel" is a common misspelling or typo for: pal, pall, peal, peel, pelf, pelt, pep, pill. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | See:permissible exposure limit. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PEL | English | Picture cell element | N/A |
PEL | French | Point d'image | Computing, Meteorology & Standards |
PEL | German | Bildpunkt | Computing, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PelSynonyms: picture element (n), pixel (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pel |
| Specialty definitions using "pel": clipped pel array ♦ motion compensation ♦ pel array, pel aspect ratio, Pel syndrom, pixel aspect ratio. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pel": Peltry. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pel" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (for the), Occitan (single hair), Provencal (hair), Romansch (skin), Turkmen (border). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pel" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pel | Last name | 130 | 54,989 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Italy | Societa pel Risanamento di Napoli SPA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pel": clipped pel array ♦ pel array ♦ pel aspect ratio ♦ Pel syndrom. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pel": Super-pel. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
autorisation de demande pel pret | 2,720 | freez pel | 5 |
pel | 60 | coquin mel pel | 5 |
pel grant | 43 | culas pel | 5 |
pel item | 15 | mel pel | 3 |
x pel | 11 | federal pel grant | 3 |
pel ro | 11 | application grant pel | 3 |
freeze pel | 9 | edculas pel | 2 |
osha pel | 8 | pel supply | 2 |
college pel grant | 7 | x pel headlight protection | 2 |
job pel | 6 | pel toluene value | 2 |
foc pel tocats | 5 | hughes inc pel printing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pixelopstilling (pel array), Pel's krise (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), pelopstilling (pel array), tilskåret pixelopstilling (clipped pel array), tilskåret pelopstilling (clipped pel array). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | twee-dimensionale reeks met pixels van een afgeknipt beeld (clipped pel array), reeks van beeldelementen (pel array), crisis van Pel (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tableau de pixels découpé (clipped pel array), tableau de pixels (pel array), tableau d'éléments d'image découpé (clipped pel array), tableau d'éléments d'image (pel array), rapport largeur/hauteur (pel aspect ratio), format d'affichage des pixels (pel aspect ratio), crises ophtalmiques du tabès (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pixelgraphik (pel array), Pixelfeld (pel array), Pel-Syndrom (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), Pel-Feld (pel array), Pel Augen--Syndrom (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), Pel Augen-Krisen (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), tabische Ziliarneuralgie (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), tabische Augenkrisen (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), beschnittenes Pel-Feld (clipped pel array), abgeschnittene Pixelgraphik (clipped pel array). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρίσις του Pel (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), σύνδρομο του Pel (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), συστοιχία εικονοστοιχείων (pel array), συνδεδεμένη συστοιχία εικονοστοιχείων (clipped pel array). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | crisi di Pel (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), array di pel vincolato (clipped pel array), array di pel (pel array). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elpay síndrome de Pel (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), matriz de elementos de imagem cortada (clipped pel array), matriz de elementos de imagem (pel array). (various references) matriz de pixels recortada (clipped pel array), formación de pels recortada (clipped pel array), formación de pels (pel array), crisis ocular en la tabes dorsal (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises), crisis de Pel (Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, tabetic ocular crises). (various references) pixeluppställning (pel array), bildpunktsuppställning (pel array), beskuren peluppställning (clipped pel array), beskuren bildpunktsuppställning (clipped pel array). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pel": pelage, pelages, pelagial, pelagic, pelargonium, pelargoniums, pele, pelecypod, pelecypods, pelerine, pelerines, peles, pelf, pelfs, pelican, pelicans, pelisse, pelisses, pelite, pelites, pelitic, pellagra, pellagras, pellagrin, pellagrins, pellagrous, pellet, pelletal, pelleted, pelleting, pelletise, pelletised, pelletises, pelletising, pelletization, pelletizations, pelletize, pelletized, pelletizer, pelletizers, pelletizes, pelletizing, pellets, pellicle, pellicles, pellitories, pellitory, pellmell, pellmells, pellucid, pellucidly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pel": antechapel, appel, carpel, chapel, compel, cupel, dispel, estoppel, expel, gospel, graupel, impel, lapel, propel, rappel, reexpel, repel, sapropel, scalpel, stipel. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pel": antechapels, apelike, appellant, appellants, appellate, appellation, appellations, appellative, appellatively, appellatives, appellee, appellees, appellor, appellors, appels, archipelagic, archipelago, archipelagoes, archipelagos, bathypelagic, bipropellant, bipropellants, bonspell, bonspells, capelan, capelans, capelet, capelets, capelin, capelins, cappelletti, carpellary, carpellate, carpels, chapels, compellable, compellation, compellations, compelled, compelling, compellingly, compels, counterspell, counterspells, cupeled, cupeler, cupelers, cupeling, cupellation, cupellations, cupelled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-p" | |
-1 letter: el, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-p" | |
+1 letter: help, kelp, leap, lept, lipe, lope, pale, peal, peel, pele, pelf, pelt, pile, plea, pleb, pled, plew, plie, pole, pule, yelp. | |
+2 letters: aleph, ample, appel, apple, bleep, blype, clepe, clept, cupel, duple, elope, expel, helps, impel, julep, kelep, kelps, kelpy, lapel, lapse, leaps, leapt, leper, lepta, letup, loped, loper, lopes, loupe, maple, padle, palea, paled, paler, pales, palet, panel, parle, peals, pearl, pedal, peels, peles, pelfs, pelon, pelts, penal, pepla, peril, petal, phyle, pilea, piled, pilei, piles, pixel, place, plage, plane, plate, plead, pleas, pleat, plebe, plebs, plena, plews, plied, plier, plies, plume, plyer, poled, poler, poles, prole, puled, puler, pules, pulse, repel, reply, salep, sepal, shlep, skelp, sleep, slept, slipe, slope, slype, spale, speel, speil, spell, spelt, spiel, spile, tepal, whelp, yelps. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507178 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Names: Company Usage 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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