lossy
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lossy (comparative lossier, superlative lossiest)
- (telecommunications) of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength
- (power systems) of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss
- (of an algorithm for converting or compressing data) reducing the amount of information in data.
- JPEG is a lossy image compression format.
