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lossy

(ˈlɒsɪ)
adj
(Electrical Engineering) (of a dielectric material, transmission line, etc) designed to have a high attenuation; dissipating energy: lossy line. Compare lossless
[C20: from loss]
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Adj.1.lossy - characterized by or causing dissipation of energy
lossless - characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy
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Adding some lossy objects or materials to the chamber can make the electromagnetic signal in RCs attenuate more quickly, but excessive loads in the chamber could degrade the field uniformity and field level, which makes the performance of the chamber unacceptable.
In particular the method based on the dyadic Green's function technique and the method of moments proved to be effective and accurate and it has been applied to the analysis of both non radiating [7] and radiating [8] structures and, recently, has been extended to lossy SIW devices [9].
The images can be compressed either by use of lossy or lossless compression methods.
On the other hand, both the FDTD and ADI-FDTD methods are widely studied for lossy media [7-10].
In this paper, we will present a method to study solitary waves in NLTLs by focusing our attention on lossy NLTL.
At test and measurement sampling rates, no effective lossless or lossy compression algorithm was available.
WHY HAS THE topic of lossy transmission lines become so popular in the past few years, and why did we hear so little about this topic before?
This enables on-the-fly, lossy and lossless compression schemes, allowing system designers to optimize between image compression quality and downloading time.
JPEG (an acronym for the Joint Photographic Experts Group, a consortium of many companies) is a lossy standard: this means that some bits are lost during compression, a necessary tradeoff in the file size versus image resolution compromise.
By uncovering the basic equations of equivalent circuit descriptions, this work revealed the limitations users face when trying to adopt the common coaxial descriptions to lossy on-wafer standards.
For instance, when these lines are fabricated on substrates containing a layer with finite conductivity, such as silicon dioxide ([SiO.sub.2]) on silicon (Si) or aluminum gallium arsenide ([Al.sub.x Ga.sub.1-xAs]), on gallium arsenide (GaAs), the lines can support three different characteristic modes of propagation, each with its distinctive propagation velocities.[2-4] These modes generally are referred to as the skin effect mode, the slow wave mode and the lossy dielectric mode.