possess

v 1: have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill; "he possesses

great knowledge about the Middle East"

2: have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in

Florida"; "How many cars does she have?" [syn: {own}, {have}]

3: enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas; "What

possessed you to buy this house?" "A terrible rage

possessed her"

lossless

A term describing a data

{compression} {algorithm} which retains all the information in

the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by

decompression.

{Unix} {compress} and {GNU} {gzip} perform lossless

compression.

Opposite: {lossy}.

(1995-03-29)