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Definition of MP3

(MPeg-1 audio layer 3). A very popular standard for compressing audio and particularly music files down to a reasonable size with little or no perceptible loss of quality, and the files created using it - ‘an MP3’ is an audio file. See- MPEG,- Compression.

Computer Science

Other definitions of MP3

A digital audio coding scheme used to distribute recorded music over the Internet. MP3 shrinks the size of an audio file by a factor of 10 to 12 without degrading the quality (CD-recording level) of the sound.

Computer Science