JPEG

See also: jpeg

English

Alternative forms

jpeg

Etymology

From Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the standard.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.pɛɡ/
Audio: (file)

Proper noun

JPEG

Acronym of Joint Photographic Experts Group.
Image compression standard created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
JPEG is widely used on the Web.

Noun

JPEG (plural JPEGs)

(computer graphics) An image using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression
I'll send you some JPEGs tomorrow.
- 1999, Dennis Jones, Neil Randall, Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 670:
  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.
- 2023, Amanda Cassatt, Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 47:
  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 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker‎^[1]:
  Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web.

Verb

JPEG (third-person singular simple present JPEGs, present participle JPEGging or JPEGing, simple past and past participle JPEGged or JPEGed or JPEG'd)

(computer graphics) To create or convert an image into a JPEG file.
(computer graphics, by extension) To lossily compress an image file in such a way that much of the quality is removed.
That image has been jpegged to hell.

Derived terms

JNG
MJPEG
jpg, JPG, .jpg, .JPG, .jpeg, .JPEG, .jpe, .JPE