JPEG

[ jey-peg ]

noun

, Computers.

1. a set of standards and file format for compression of digital color images.
2. an image file compressed in this format.

JPEG

/ ˈdʒeɪˌpɛɡ /

noun

1. computing
   1. a standard file format for compressing pictures by disposing of redundant pixels
   2. a picture held in this file format
   3. ( as modifier )

      a JPEG image

JPEG

/ jā′pĕg′ /

1. Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
2. A standard algorithm for the compression of digital images, making it easier to store and transmit them.
3. A digital image that has been compressed using this algorithm.

Word History and Origins

Origin of JPEG¹

First recorded in 1985–90; abbreviation of J(oint) P(hotographic) E(xperts) G(roup) , developer of the standards

Word History and Origins

Origin of JPEG¹

C20: technique devised by the J ( oint ) P ( hotographic ) E ( xperts ) G ( roup )

Example Sentences

The Ware county attorney responds, “I will verify,” and responds with a jpeg labeled “ware-county-confirmation,” but the actual image was never provided to the plaintiffs, and can’t be viewed.

From Slate

These days, Yousefi, 28, is known as shy.jpeg by more than 50,000 people across Instagram and TikTok.

From Los Angeles Times

There are no details that you’d miss in a jpeg reproduction, no visible evidence of human hands at play, no sensual pleasure to be found in the surface, nothing surprising, mysterious or engrossing.

From New York Times

The Texas bluesman Gary Clark Jr. reinforces the connection in “Maktub,” Arabic for “it is written”; it’s from his exploratory, style-hopping new EP, “Jpeg Raw.”

From New York Times

And he spends hours comparing facial anomalies by placing one jpeg portrait over another and adjusting the opacity of the top photo so that the lower one emerges into its lines “like a body floating to the surface of a lake.”

From Washington Post