English Dictionary

lossy

/ˈlɒsi/

adj

(telecommunications) Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength. / (power systems) Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.

The lossy compression algorithm reduces the file size but sacrifices some quality.

意味（1）

(telecommunications) Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.

意味（2）

(power systems) Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.

意味（3）

(computing, of an algorithm for converting or compressing data) Reducing the amount of information in data.

JPEG is a lossy image compression format.