lossless
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- characterized by or causing no dissipation of energyOpposite lossy
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Loss′less adjective
Free from loss. obsolete John Milton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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)