JPEG

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Etymology[edit]

From Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the standard.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.pɛɡ/
  • (file)

Proper noun[edit]

JPEG

  1. Acronym of Joint Photographic Experts Group.
  2. Image compression standard created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
    JPEG is widely used on the Web.

Noun[edit]

JPEG (plural JPEGs)

  1. (computer graphics) An image using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression
    I'll send you some JPEGs tomorrow.
    • 1999, Dennis Jones, Neil Randall, Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 670:
      It's important to note that you cannot interlace a JPEG. However, a technology has been developed to allow JPEGs to progressively render. This is the progressive JPEG format.
    • 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)

  1. (computer graphics) To create or convert an image into a JPEG file.
  2. (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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