lordless

adj : having no lord or master; "harsh punishments for sturdy

vagabonds and masterless men" [syn: {masterless}]

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)