noncompressed
Noncompressed refers to data that has not undergone compression intended to reduce its size. In digital systems, compression can be lossy or lossless; noncompressed data remains in its original form, or as close to that form as the recording or capture process yields, without subsequent compression.
In practice, noncompressed data commonly appears in audio as PCM samples stored in formats such as WAV
Advantages include full data fidelity, no generation loss, and no need to decompress during access; disadvantages
Use cases include archival preservation, professional audio editing, medical imaging, and scenarios requiring exact replication of
Note that noncompressed and uncompressed are often used interchangeably, though some contexts differentiate by whether any