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lossy compression

In computing, data compression technique that dramatically reduces the size of a file by eliminating superfluous data. The lost information is either unnoticeable to the user, or can be recovered during decompression by extrapolation of the existing data. JPEG and MPEG are lossy methods that can reduce the size of graphics, audio, and video files by over 90%.



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