lossy

English

Etymology

From loss +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒsi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔsi/, /ˈlɑsi/
• Rhymes: -ɒsi
• Rhymes: -ɔːsi

Adjective

lossy (comparative lossier, superlative lossiest)

1. (telecommunications) Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.
2. (power systems) Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.
3. (computing, of an algorithm for converting or compressing data) Reducing the amount of information in data.

   JPEG is a lossy image compression format.

Antonyms

• lossless

Derived terms

• lossily
• lossiness
• unlossy

Translations

subject to loss of signal strength

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有信號損耗的 / 有信号损耗的 (yǒu xìnhào sǔnhào de)

• Finnish: häviöllinen (fi)
• Hungarian: veszteséges (hu), veszteséggel járó
• Polish: stratny (pl)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

subject to various forms of power loss

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有功率損耗的 / 有功率损耗的 (yǒu gōnglǜ sǔnhào de)

• Finnish: häviöllinen (fi)
• Hungarian: veszteséges (hu), veszteséggel járó
• Polish: stratny (pl)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

reducing the amount of information in data

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有損壓縮的 / 有损压缩的 (yǒu sǔn yāsuō de)

• Finnish: häviöllinen (fi)
• Greek: απολεστικός (el) (apolestikós), απωλειακός (apoleiakós)
• Hungarian: veszteséges (hu)
• Japanese: 非可逆 (hikagyaku) (data compression), 不可逆 (ja) (fukagyaku) (data compression, literally “irreversible”)
• Polish: stratny (pl)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: destruktiv (sv)