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Answer for the clue "Type of compression ", 8 letters:
lossless

Word definitions for lossless in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 free from loss, especially not losing electrical energy or force 2 (context information theory English) Not losing information.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lossless \Loss"less\, a. Free from loss. [Obs.] --Milton.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy [ant: lossy ]

Usage examples of lossless.

If you want to remain lossless, you have to seal yourself off, in a kind of substrate.

Not the long survival of humankind into a dismal future of decay and shadows, the final retreat into the lossless substrate, where nothing ever changed or grew.