lossless compression

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lossless
adjective
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/ˈlɒs.ləs/us
/ˈlɑːs.ləs/
not involving the loss of data or ...
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compression
noun[U]
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/kəmˈpreʃ.ən/us
/kəmˈpreʃ.ən/
the act of pressing something into a smaller space or putting pressure on it from different sides until it ...
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Losslesscompressionmethods may be categorized according to the type of data they are designed to compress.
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Modern systems tend to store the data digitally, often withlosslesscompression.
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With a quantization step that equals 1, no quantization is performed (it is used inlosslesscompression).
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After the removal of these details,losslesscompressioncan be applied to the remainder to greatly reduce the file size.
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Losslesscompressionis preferred for archival purposes and often for medical imaging, technical drawings, clip art, or comics.
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Losslesscompressionreduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy.
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Losslesscompressionis unable to attain high compression ratios due to the complexity of waveforms and the rapid changes in sound forms.
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It is an inherentlylosslesscompressiontechnique, like almost all entropy-coders.
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By contrast,losslesscompressionis typically required for text and data files, such as bank records and text articles.
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Both arelosslesscompressionalgorithms that provide an optional controlled lossy transformation approach.
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Losslesscompressionalgorithms reduce file size while preserving a perfect copy of the original uncompressed image.
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Losslesscompressionis possible because most real-world data has statistical redundancy.
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It is alosslesscompressiontechnique, although the video coding standards in which it is used are typically for lossy compression applications.
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Sincelosslesscompressionaims to remove as much redundancy as possible, it is known as entropy coding in the field of information theory.
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Power graph analysis can be thought of as alosslesscompressionalgorithm for graphs.
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However, many ordinarylosslesscompressionalgorithms produce headers, wrappers, tables, or other predictable output that might instead make cryptanalysis easier.
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Losslesscompressionshould be used to avoid accumulating stages of re-compression when editing images.
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Often lossy compression is able to achieve smaller file sizes thanlosslesscompression.
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Losslesscompressionis, by definition, fully reversible, while lossy compression throws away some data which can not be restored.
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No information is lost inlosslesscompression.
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