Main Entry: loss·less Pronunciation: 'los-l&s Function: adjective : occurring or functioning without loss <lossless electricaltransmission in a nerve fiber>
losslessalgorithm, compression A term describing a data compressionalgorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unixcompress and GNUgzip perform lossless compression. Opposite: lossy. (1995-03-29)
