pixelize

To pixelate; to convert into pixels.

Verb

  1. To pixelate; to convert into pixels.
    • Vector graphics are resolution-independent and can be scaled to any size without losing detail, whereas a bitmap image is resolution-dependent and can pixelize when printed beyond its resolution parameters. - 2006,...
    • Aftenposten’s editor-in-chief, Espen Egil Hansen, said the newspaper had received a message from Facebook asking it to “either remove or pixelize” the photograph. - 2016 September 9, Alice Ross, Julia Carrie Wong,...

Origin

From pixel + -ize.

Forms

pixelizes pixelizing pixelized

Derived

pixelization