| a. | 1. | Free from loss. |
| Adj. | 1. | lossless - characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy Antonyms: lossy - characterized by or causing dissipation of energy |
| (algorithm, compression) | 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. |
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