losses

n : something lost (especially money lost at gambling) [syn: {losings}]

[ant: {winnings}]

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)