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• a  characterized by or causing dissipation of energy

• There's a reason the Academy recruits smart actresses for this event you wouldn't entrust Jessica Simpson with words like "lossy.
• Especially since text files are relatively small, even when at maximum fidelity, as it were -- no such thing as a lossy format when you're dealing with words.

• lossless

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• 18 Image Compressors to Speed Up Your Website
  With page speed a ranking SEO factor and consumers expecting exceedingly fast web experiences, it's crucial to get aggressive and take control of your image sizes to deliver a faster loading website to your users Image compression is either lossy or lossless: Lossy works by discarding information from the original file, and lossless retains all the original data (though, the file size tends to ...
  Oct. 29, 2013 - Mashable