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What are the meanings of these key words?? please help! PIXEL, MEGA PIXEL, COLOUR DEPTH, BIT, BYTE.

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Its describing different pixels
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PIXEL: a minute area of illumination on a display screen, one of many form which an images is composed.

MEGAPIXEL: a unit of graphic resolution equivalent to one million or (strictly) 1,048,576 pixels.

COLOR DEPTH: number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, in a bit mapped image or video dram buffer or number of bits used for each color component of a single pixel.

BIT and BYTE: amount of computer memory are often expressed in terms of mega bytes or gigabytes
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