JPEG

See also: jpeg

English

Alternative forms

• jpeg

Etymology

From Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the standard.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jā′pĕg′
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeɪˌpɛɡ/

  Audio (US):

  (file)

• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɪ̯ˌpeɡ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeˌpɛɡ/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeːˌpɛɡ/
• Rhymes: -eɪpɛɡ
• Hyphenation: JPEG, J‧PEG

Proper noun

JPEG

2. Acronym of Joint Photographic Experts Group.
4. Image compression standard created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.

   JPEG is widely used on the Web.

Noun

JPEG (plural JPEGs)

1. (computer graphics) An image using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression.

   a JPEG of a cat

   I'll send you some JPEGs tomorrow.

   • 1999, Dennis Jones, Neil Randall, Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 670:

     It's important to note that you cannot interlace a JPEG. However, a technology has been developed to allow JPEGs to progressively render. This is the progressive JPEG format.

   • 2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 March 2022:

     Typically, the art object that gets NFT’d is a digital file — maybe a JPEG image or an MP4 video — that lives on some hard drive, and that looks or sounds precisely the way it would have in the decades before NFTs came along.

   • 2023, Amanda Cassatt, Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 47:

     Critics of NFTs who don't understand the technology wonder why buyers would pay so much for a JPEG when they could just “right-click save” to their computer and copy the image an arbitrary number of times.

   • 2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker‎^[2], archived from the original on 25 April 2023:

     Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. […] Thinking about them as blurry JPEGs offers a way to evaluate what they might or might not be well suited for.

Translations

image compressed with JPEG

• Russian: ^{(please verify)} жи́пег m inan (žípeg)

Verb

JPEG (third-person singular simple present JPEGs or JPEG's, present participle JPEGing or JPEG'ing, simple past and past participle JPEGed or JPEG'd or JPEG'ed)

1. (computer graphics) To create or convert an image into a JPEG file.
2. (computer graphics, by extension) To lossily compress an image file using the JPEG format with visible loss of quality.

   That image has been JPEGged to hell.

Translations

to create or convert an image into a JPEG file

• Russian: please add this translation if you can

to heavily lossily compress a JPEG file

• Russian: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Russian: ^{(please verify)} жипегнуть impf (žipegnutʹ), ^{(please verify)} зашакалить pf (zašakalitʹ)

Derived terms

• JNG
• MJPEG
• jpg, JPG, .jpg, .JPG, .jpeg, .JPEG, .jpe, .JPE

See also

• MPEG
• JBIG

Further reading

• Official JPEG site
• JPEG on Wikipedia.Wikipedia