Definition of "JPEG"

JPEG

/ˈd͡ʒeɪ.pɛɡ/

proper noun
1. Acronym of Joint Photographic Experts Group.
2. Image compression standard created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
noun
plural JPEGs
1. (computer graphics) An image using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression
  Quotations
  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.
  1999, Dennis Jones, Neil Randall, Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Que Publishing, page 670
  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, Amanda Cassatt, Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, page 47
  Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web.
  2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker‎
verb
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.