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JPEG

Noun CEFR B1
ˈd͡ʒeɪˌpɛɡ

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of JPEG.
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  2. Acronym of Joint Photographic Experts Group.
  3. An image using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression.
  4. Image compression standard created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.

Equivalents

FrançaisJPEG
ItalianoJPEG

Examples

“JPEG is widely used on the Web.”
“a JPEG of a cat”
“I'll send⟳ you some JPEGs tomorrow.”
“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.”
“Typically, the art object that gets NFT’d is a digital file⟳ — maybe a JPEG image or an MP4 video — that lives on some hard drive⟳, and that looks or sounds precisely the way it would have⟳ in the decades before NFTs came along.”
“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.”
“Think⟳ of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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