COMPRESSION

Communications Systems Glossary

Communications Systems — Compression

Information on Compression

Compression is the process by which redundancy is removed from data before transmission or storage. In lossless compression the original data can be reconstructed precisely. In lossy compression some information is discarded so that the reconstructed data is not identical to the original.

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