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Lossy vs Fossy - What's the difference?

lossy | fossy |

As adjectives the difference between lossy and fossy

is that lossy is (telecommunications) of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength while fossy is .

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

    fossy

    English

    Adjective

    (head)