Lossily

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a lossy way.

    "Since the image was lossily compressed, we were unable to recover the original."

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"Since the image was lossily compressed, we were unable to recover the original."

Etymology

From lossy + -ly.

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