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Lossier vs Dossier - What's the difference?

lossier | dossier |

As an adjective lossier

is (lossy).

As a noun dossier is

.

lossier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (lossy)

    • 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

    dossier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2004 , date=April 15 , author= , title=Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}