Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A standard algorithm for the compression of digital images.
- noun A digital image stored as a file so compressed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Computers) A standardized format for storing graphic data in binary computer files, allowing over 16 million different colors. It allows for lossy compression, i. e. the compression of data into a form which re-expands into an image close, but not identical to the original image. Files stored in this format usually carry the extension jpg or jpeg. Compare
GIF .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- initialism computing Acronym of Joint Photographic Experts Group. (It is an image compression standard)
- initialism computing An image using the
JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression - initialism computing An image file in the JFIF format.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In some rare instances, Camera Control Pro 2 displayed an error and quit unexpectedly when any of RAW and / or JPEG images recorded at an image quality of NEF (RAW) +JPEG was moved from the destination folder specified in the Download Options dialog to the Trash from the Finder.
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My pictures, even in JPEG, that is compressed, format, run well over five megs and in RAW run to 12 megs.
Comcast’s Near-Unlimited Bandwidth Limits - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The question should be, is NASA only going to release degraded images in JPEG format or will they release all raw images in whatever image format, even if the size is in the megabytes or gigabytes.
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I still found their works in JPEG with the big file.
Archive 2009-03-01 Azmie aka switch image 2009
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I still found their works in JPEG with the big file.
Week 2: Puma kit templates vote started today Azmie aka switch image 2009
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Photos must be in JPEG format and less than 500k in size.
Repper Turns Your Photos Into Abstract Patterns | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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CONTENTdm is used as the database for the project; items are in JPEG format with varying dpi; search results are presented as image, title, subject, and description (though some items have no description); clicking on the title brings up the more detailed record
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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CONTENTdm is used as the database for the project; items are in JPEG format with varying dpi; search results are presented as image, title, subject, and description (though some items have no description); clicking on the title brings up the more detailed record
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Images are displayed in JPEG, JPEG2000 or GIF files.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu 2008
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Images are displayed in JPEG, JPEG2000 or GIF files.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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