vowel

n 1: a speech sound made with the vocal tract open [syn: {vowel

sound}] [ant: {consonant}]

2: a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel

voxel

(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)