• Roundtrip

    Full definition of roundtrip

    Noun

    roundtrip

    (plural roundtrips)
    1. Alternative form of round trip
      • Left with only her Sun-Times subscribers, she faced a 35-mile roundtrip to deliver to four of them.

    Verb

    1. (computing, transitive) To export (a file, data, etc.) and eventually import it again without loss of fidelity.
      • 2010, Phil Green, Michael Kriss, Color Management: Understanding and Using ICC Profiles (page 284)In the colorimetric intents only the values within the gamut of the data encoding can be roundtripped accurately...
      • 2010, Ramesh Bangia, Dictionary of Information Technology (page 449)In some cases, roundtripping can involve repeated conversions of the file from one format to another and back. Frequent roundtripping may be a concern because each conversion has the potential to introduce unwanted changes to the file.

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