lossless

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lossless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lossless \Loss"less\, a.
     Free from loss. [Obs.] --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

lossless - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lossless
      adj 1: characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy
             [ant: lossy]

lossless - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  lossless
  
     <algorithm, compression> 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)