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s | lossy |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective lossy is

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

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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