Definition of "lossless" []

• Free from loss, especially not losing electrical energy or force (adjective)
• Not losing information. (adjective)

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• "Rip in lossless format like Flac or Apple Lossless (with iTunes) then give away to charity."
• "Archival images are in: resolution of 300 dpi, minimum bit depth of 8 (256 colors/grayscale), uncompressed format or in lossless compression format."
• "The sharp increase in bitrate falls in line with what's known as lossless compression, meaning bit-for-bit replication of the source material in a single file."