PCX

"PCX" is a common misspelling or typo for: picks, pixie, pox.

Specialty Definition: PCX

Domain	Definition
Computing	Pcx A filename extension for images created with the IBM PC Paintbrush tool. [Format?] (1995-12-10). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Specialty Definition: PCX

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

PCX is an image file format that uses a simple form of run-length encoding (a type of lossless compression algorithm). Most PCX files use a color palette, but the format has also been extended to allow 24-bit images. PCX was quite popular on early MS-DOS and Windows systems, but is nowadays rare, having been largely replaced by formats which support better compression, such as GIF, JPEG and PNG.

Because colors 0x00..0xc0 are compressed better than colors 0xc1..0xff, good palette sorting is important. It's usually (but not always) enough to move the most-common colors into palette positions 0x00..0xc0, and least-used to palette positions 0xc1..0xff. Complete algorithm of sorting pallette is to count how many times a color appears 63N+1 (for nonnegative integer N) times it a row, as only in such cases it's possible to use unprefixed color values to improve compression, and move colors with higher count into indexes 0x00..0xc0, and all other to 0xc1..0xff. This is warranted to produce optimal results.

This compression algorithm is very fast and takes very little memory, but its not very efficient, especially in compressing real-world images.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "PCX."

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Crosswords: PCX

Specialty definitions using "PCX": image formats. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PCX

Domain	Title
Books	Don Lewis Pagan/Magickal . Pcx Clip Art/Book and Disk (reference) Using Pcx Graphics Files: The Programmer's Definitive Guide to Pcx File Formats (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: PCX

"PCX" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.04% of the time. "PCX" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	98.04%	50	48,117
Noun (common)	1.96%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	51	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PCX

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
pcx	223	2400 pcx	4
pcx file	76	header pcx photo shop	3
pcx viewer	36	medisense pcx precision	3
toshiba pcx 2200	13	convert to pcx	3
pcx image	10	pcx shower	3
pcx file format	10	4125 pcx	3
file open pcx	10	add background background background bitmap bitmap bmp encoded enhanced graphic image image jpeg jpg kodak length metafile metafile network paintbrush pcd pcx photocd png portable rle run targa tga tif tiff truevision window wmf wpg zsoft	3
pcx format	10	monitor pcx precision	3
2500 pcx toshiba	10	file pcx type	3
extension pcx	10	pcx picture	3
extension file pcx	8	250 pcx sennheiser	3
pcx converter	7	file pcx viewing	3
pcx file viewer	6	523 pcx	3
pcx editor	5	5000 pcx toshiba	2
pcx 2200	5	file pcx view	2
file opening pcx	5	pcx view	2
5800 pcx	4	pcx precision	2
pcx reader	4	colormap pcx	2
2500 pcx	4	pcx conversion	2
free pcx viewer	4	forum.com pcx	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PCX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words containing the letters "c-p-x"
	+3 letters: cowpox, except, expect, pickax.
	+4 letters: apraxic, carapax, complex, excepts, excerpt, exciple, exocarp, expects, hypoxic, packwax, panchax, pickaxe, princox, pyrexic.
	+5 letters: chapeaux, cineplex, cowpoxes, epicalyx, epitaxic, excepted, excerpts, exciples, exocarps, expected, explicit, octuplex, oxpecker, pickaxed, pickaxes, precieux, proxemic, sixpence, xylocarp.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.