jpeg
/ˈd͡ʒeɪˌpɛɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
name
Image compression standard created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
noun
An image using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of JPEG.
verb
Alternative letter-case form of JPEG.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒeɪˌpɛɡ/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒeɪˌpɛɡ/
Inflected Forms
JPEGs (plural)
JPEGs (present, singular)
JPEG's (present, singular)
JPEGing (participle, present)
JPEG'ing (participle, present)
JPEGed (participle, past)
JPEGed (past)
JPEG'd (participle, past)
JPEG'd (past)
JPEG'ed (participle, past)
JPEG'ed (past)
jpegging (participle, present)