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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the standard.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]JPEG
- Acronym of Joint Photographic Experts Group.
- Image compression standard created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
- JPEG is widely used on the Web.
Noun
[edit]JPEG (plural JPEGs)
- (computer graphics) An image using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression
- I'll send you some JPEGs tomorrow.
- 2023, Amanda Cassatt, Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 47:
- Critics of NFTs who don't understand the technology wonder why buyers would pay so much for a JPEG when they could just “right-click save” to their computer and copy the image an arbitrary number of times.
- 2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker[1]:
- Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web.
Verb
[edit]JPEG (third-person singular simple present JPEGs, present participle JPEGging or JPEGing, simple past and past participle JPEGged or JPEGed or JPEG'd)
- (computer graphics) To create or convert an image into a JPEG file.
- (computer graphics, by extension) To lossily compress an image file in such a way that much of the quality is removed.
- That image has been jpegged to hell.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- https://jpeg.org/
JPEG on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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