lossy

English

Etymology

loss +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒsi/

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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

Translations

subject to loss of signal strength

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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

subject to various forms of power loss

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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

reducing the amount of information in data

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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