Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Lossless \Loss"less\, a.
Free from loss. [Obs.] --Milton.
Source : WordNet®
lossless
adj : characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy [ant: {lossy}]
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
lossless
A term describing a data
{compression} {algorithm} which retains all the information in
the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by
decompression.
{Unix} {compress} and {GNU} {gzip} perform lossless
compression.
Opposite: {lossy}.
(1995-03-29)