Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from loss.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Free from loss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective free from
loss , especially not losingelectrical energy orforce - adjective Not losing
information .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rip in lossless format like Flac or Apple Lossless (with iTunes) then give away to charity.
Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010
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Archival images are in: resolution of 300 dpi, minimum bit depth of 8 (256 colors/grayscale), uncompressed format or in lossless compression format.
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Archival images are in: resolution of 300 dpi, minimum bit depth of 8 (256 colors/grayscale), uncompressed format or in lossless compression format.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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The sharp increase in bitrate falls in line with what's known as lossless compression, meaning bit-for-bit replication of the source material in a single file.
Icrontic 2009
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The program's key feature is that editing of a video file is performed without re-encoding (so-called lossless editing).
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Want your beloved iPod to play dozens of free games or better-quality music files, such as "lossless" FLAC files?
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Want your beloved iPod to play dozens of free games or better-quality music files, such as "lossless" FLAC files?
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Would you download a MP3 file (or AAC or WMA or a higher-quality "lossless" format like FLAC) if it had six discrete channels of audio instead of just left and right stereo?
Would you download MP3s in 5.1 surround sound? | Sync Blog 2007
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The audio is lossless, meaning it's not compressed.
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Recordings of concerts by popular acts such as Animal Collective and The National are offered for free downloading, by agreement with the artists, as MP3s and "lossless" digital files.
Net Worthy 2009
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