Lossless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lossless \Loss"less\, a.
     Free from loss. [Obs.] --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  lossless
       adj : characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy [ant: {lossy}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)