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JPEG
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jpeg
English
Alternative forms
en jpeg
Etymology
From Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the standard.
Pronunciation
jā′pĕg′
en /ˈd͡ʒeɪˌpɛɡ/ RP,GenAm,CanE
en JPEG-pronunciation-us.ogg US
en /ˈd͡ʒæɪ̯ˌpeɡ/ AuE,NZE
en /ˈd͡ʒeˌpɛɡ/ ScE
en /ˈd͡ʒeːˌpɛɡ/ InE
en eɪpɛɡ 2
en JPEG J PEG
Proper noun
en Q1702547 en w:Joint Photographic Experts Group.
en Q2195 Image compression standard created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
en JPEG is widely used on the Web.
Noun
en computer graphics An en image picturefile using the JFIF image file format, containing an image compressed using JPEG compression.
en a JPEG of a cat
en I'll send you some JPEGs tomorrow.
en 1999 Dennis Jones; Neil Randall Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Que Publishing 9780789719102 670 https://books.google.com/books?id=CZlmFOSs1HkC&pg=PA670&dq=%22JPEGs%22&hl=&cd=8&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22JPEGs%22&f=false 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.
en 2022-03-03 w:Blake Gopnik One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art? w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/arts/design/nft-art-beeple.html 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251110115010/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/arts/design/nft-art-beeple.html 10 November 2025
en 2023 Amanda Cassatt Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution John Wiley & Sons 9781394171958 47 https://books.google.com/books?id=BtWsEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&dq=NFT+%22JPEG%22&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=NFT%20%22JPEG%22&f=false 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.
en https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web 2023-02-09 Ted Chiang w:The New Yorker 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20230425142556/https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
Translations
image compressed with JPEG
Russian: ru жи́пег m-in
Verb
+!,+'
en computer graphics To create or convert an image into a JPEG file.
en computer graphics by extension To lossily compress an image file using the JPEG format with visible loss of quality.
en That image has been JPEGged to hell.
Translations
to create or convert an image into a JPEG file
Russian: ru
to heavily lossily compress a JPEG file
Russian: ru
Russian: ru жипегнуть impf, ru зашакалить pf
Derived terms
en JNG
en MJPEG
en jpg, JPG, .jpg, .JPG, .jpeg, .JPEG, .jpe, .JPE
See also
en MPEG
en JBIG
Further reading
Official JPEG site
en File formats