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say it: EM-peg
mpeg is a noun meaning "a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards". It is pronounced /ˈɛmˌpɛɡ/ — EM-peg. It carries one recorded sense.
a set of standards adopted by the moving pictures experts group for the compression of digital video and audio data or a file of data compressed according to those standards
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mpeg come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.