Describing a channel, medium, or encoding process where information is permanently lost or degraded. While highly synonymous with lossy, lossful is sometimes used specifically to describe physical transmission lines that bleed radio frequency energy or optical power over distance.
Heard on the job
We can't run a high-speed link over this lossful copper pair without putting a repeater in the middle.
Also heard as
- lossy
Do not mix it up with
- Lossy: Lossy is the standard term for data compression, while lossful is an older term more often applied to physical transmission mediums.