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LOSSLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lossless mean?
• LOSSLESS (adjective)
The adjective LOSSLESS has 1 sense:
1. characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy
Familiarity information: LOSSLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy
Antonym:
lossy (characterized by or causing dissipation of energy)
Context examples
A lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding.
(Deflate Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)
An open source lossless data compression algorithm that compresses most files more effectively than the more traditional gzip or ZIP, but is slower.
(bzip2 Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)
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