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lossy

[ law-see, los-ee ]

adjective

Electricity.
  1. (of a material or transmission line) causing appreciable loss or dissipation of energy.


lossy

/ ˈɒɪ /

adjective

  1. (of a dielectric material, transmission line, etc) designed to have a high attenuation; dissipating energy Compare lossless

    lossy line

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lossy1

First recorded in 1945–50; loss + -y 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lossy1

C20: from loss
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However, solar power, batteries and in particular those in electric vehicles, and computers all depend on DC, making lossy AC-to-DC conversion necessary.

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Physicists and engineers have struggled for decades with how small optical resonators can be made without making them very lossy, which is equivalent to asking how small you can make a semiconductor device.

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Throughout the latest post, Young — a longtime advocate of hi-fi sound — heavily criticizes Spotify for its lossy audio quality.

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Mastered for iTunes was never about bit rate or high-resolution audio; Apple has continued to stick with the lossy AAC format as streaming competitors like Tidal have put an emphasis on lossless audio.

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It was produced on April 17th on “probably a typical office network copier/printer,” and it uses lossy compression “more appropriate to photographs than to text.”

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