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Podcast: Word of the Day
Episode: Lossless
Description: Lossless is an adjective that means having no dissipation of electrical energy.Commonly used in computing, our word of the day entered English in the 1930s and combines the frequently used English word ‘loss’ with the the suffix ‘less.’ Here’s an example of it in use:For this project, we needed to make sure there was no data compression. So we had to make sure everything was lossless.