(of a dielectric material, transmission line, etc) designed to have a high attenuation; dissipating energy
lossy line
Compare lossless
Word origin
C20: from loss
lossy in American English
(ˈlɔsi, ˈlɑsi)
adjective
Electricity(of a material or transmission line)
causing appreciable loss or dissipation of energy
Word origin
[1945–50; loss + -y1]
Examples of 'lossy' in a sentence
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From this we directly deduce the decidability of these games on probabilistic lossy channel systems.
Nathalie Bertrand, Philippe Schnoebelen 2013, 'Solving Stochastic Büchi Games on Infinite Arenas with a Finite Attractor', Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Sciencehttp://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.4577v4. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Such noise can also be produced during transmission or by poor-quality lossy image compression.
Monagi H. Alkinani, Mahmoud R. El-Sakka 2017, 'Patch-based models and algorithms for image denoising: a comparative review betweenpatch-based images denoising methods for additive noise reduction', EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processinghttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13640-017-0203-4. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Theoretical and experimental investigations were carried out using a lossy medium.
Chanchai Thongsopa, Thanaset Thosdeekoraphat 2013, 'Analysis and Design of Magnetic Shielding System for Breast Cancer Treatment withHyperthermia Inductive Heating', International Journal of Antennas and Propagationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/163905. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In addition, such things are connected to each other over low-power and lossy networks.
Namje Park 2015, 'Mutual Authentication Scheme in Secure Internet of Things Technology for ComfortableLifestyle', Sensorshttp://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/1/20. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The distribution of the lossy medium was analyzed using the finite difference time domain method.
Chanchai Thongsopa, Thanaset Thosdeekoraphat 2013, 'Analysis and Design of Magnetic Shielding System for Breast Cancer Treatment withHyperthermia Inductive Heating', International Journal of Antennas and Propagationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/163905. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Migration has been proven to be a lossy method for many types of digital objects.
Timothy Robert Hart, Denise de Vries 2017, 'Metadata Provenance and Vulnerability', Information Technology and Librarieshttps://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/10146. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The lossy compression leads to quite complicated compression artifacts, especially blocking artifacts and ringing effects.
Zengshun Zhao, Qian Sun, Haoran Yang, Heng Qiao, Zhigang Wang, Dapeng Oliver Wu 2019, 'Compression artifacts reduction by improved generative adversarial networks', EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processinghttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13640-019-0465-0. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)