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Lossy
Adjective
Definitions
1.
Adjective
Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.
2.
Adjective
Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.
3.
Adjective
Of an algorithm for converting or compressing data, reducing the amount of information in data.
"JPEG is a lossy image compression format."
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