Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lossless \Loss"less\, a.
Free from loss. [Obs.] --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lossless
adj 1: characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy
[ant: lossy]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
lossless
A term describing a data
compression algorithm which retains all the information in
the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by
decompression.
Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless
compression.
Opposite: lossy.
(1995-03-29)