JPEG en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈd͡ʒeɪˌpɛɡ/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈd͡ʒeˌpɛɡ/ (Scotland)
- jā′pĕg′
- /ˈd͡ʒeːˌpɛɡ/ (India)
- /ˈd͡ʒæɪ̯ˌpeɡ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- (US) audio
Etymology
From Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the standard.
Meanings
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An image using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression.
Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. […] Thinking about them as blurry JPEGs offers a way to evaluate what they might or might not be well suited for.
2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2023: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, →ISBN, page 670:I'll send you some JPEGs tomorrow.
a JPEG of a cat
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, →ISBN, page 47: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.
2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2022:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| jpeg | alternative | lexicographic | |
| JPEGs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
