lossless

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Lossless \Loss"less\, a. Free from loss. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

lossless

<algorithm, compression> 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)

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