Describing a transmission medium that attenuates signals over distance, or a compression algorithm that discards non-essential data to reduce file size. In networking, a lossy link drops packets due to interference or congestion, requiring protocols like TCP to retransmit the missing information.
Heard on the job
The Wi-Fi connection in the warehouse is too lossy for the barcode scanners to maintain a live database session.
Also heard as
- lossful