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lossless

lossless

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lossless  \Loss"less\,  a. 
  Free  from  loss  [Obs.]  --Milton. 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  lossless 
 
    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)