MPEG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does MPEG mean? 

• MPEG (noun)
  The noun MPEG has 1 sense:

1. a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards

  Familiarity information: MPEG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MPEG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("MPEG" is a kind of...):

compression (encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required)

Domain usage:

acronym; initialism (a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word)