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Flossy vs Lossy - What's the difference?

flossy | lossy |

As adjectives the difference between flossy and lossy

is that flossy is resembling floss while lossy is of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.

As a proper noun Flossy

is a female given name, diminutive of Florence.

flossy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling floss.

    • lossy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (telecommunications) of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength
  • (power systems) of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss
  • reducing the amount of information in data.
    • JPEG is a lossy image compression format.

    Antonyms

    * lossless