How to Use uncompressed in a Sentence

uncompressed

adjective
  • These layers create warmth by trapping air in their fibers, and those fibers need to be lofty and uncompressed to work.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Neither type of port is able to support an uncompressed 4K/240Hz signal on its own.
    Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 23 May 2022
  • Fill power is the number of cubic inches one ounce of the down in question can loft into when uncompressed.
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 22 July 2019
  • Tenenbaum’s voice is clean and uncompressed, unmodified and pure in tone.
    Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The delays can be attributed to almost anything in your site build—from overusing CSS to uncompressed photos.
    Iman Bashir, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • But with the new iPhone 14, Deep Fusion will be introduced to uncompressed images earlier in the imaging process than before.
    Samuel Axon and Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Most of the probe's dataset, including the highest-resolution views and full, uncompressed images, have not yet been received.
    Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2015
  • Audio sources connect to the hub, which then relays the audio wirelessly to both speakers using uncompressed Wi-Fi.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Tidal Tidal’s biggest advantage is its top-tier HiFi plan that offers uncompressed, hi-res sound quality at a cost of $19.99 per month.
    Don Melanson, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Amezdroz, however, prefers to shoot nearly uncompressed to maintain every last bit of detail.
    Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Some smartphones include a RAW format setting, which results in massive uncompressed files.
    Claire Sibonney, Wired, 11 May 2021
  • There’s currently no release timeline for the uncompressed image feature.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The website will use Xstream Music high resolution streaming by OraStream to offer uncompressed master recordings.
    Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2017
  • Most modern smartphones have vastly improved and light-sensitive sensors, permit some granular control of the settings, and are able to shoot more detail-rich RAW photos, which are uncompressed and unprocessed image files.
    Eric Adams, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2022
  • Tom Scott explains the ingenious solution: In an uncompressed format, each character in a text document is encoded using an 8-digit series of 1s and 0s.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Do yourself a favor this holiday season by downloading a full-resolution, uncompressed version of 2022’s most iconic space image.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2022
  • That's more than enough horsepower for most professionals, able to handle up to 22 simultaneous streams of uncompressed 8K video or multitasking between apps that would normally require rendering on separate machines.
    Brian Westover, PCMAG, 6 June 2023

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