voxel

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voxel - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  voxel
  
     <jargon> (By analogy with "pixel") Volume element.
  
     The smallest distinguishable box-shaped part of a
     three-dimensional space.  A particular voxel will be
     identified by the x, y and z coordinates of one of its eight
     corners, or perhaps its centre.  The term is used in three
     dimensional modelling.
  
     (1995-03-10)