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Lassy vs Lossy - What's the difference?

lassy | lossy |

As a noun lassy

is chiefly scots variant of lassie.

As an adjective lossy is

(telecommunications) of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.

lassy

English

Noun

(lassies)
  • Chiefly Scots Variant of lassie.

    • References

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    Anagrams

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    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