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Pixel Dame*
* A pixel is the basic element of an image. It is analgous to a bit, the basic element of data. the term was first coined in 1969. [Fahey, T. (1994). Net.speak: The Internet Dictionary. Indianapolis: Hayden books.] * A dame is: (1) Used formerly as a courtesy title for a woman in authority or a mistress of a household; (2) Amarried woman, a matron. or an elderly woman; (3) Slang for a woman; (4) Chiefly British: A woman holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country, the wife or widow of a knight, and used as the title for such a woman. [The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Available: http://www.dictionary.com/.] |
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February 3, 2003