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BWT

BWT is the initialism of Burrows-Wheeler transform.

Meaning of Burrows-Wheeler transform

Noun

Burrows-Wheeler transform (plural Burrows-Wheeler transforms)

  1. An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.

Forms of BWT

pluralBWTs

Questions about BWT

What is BWT the initialism of?
BWT is the initialism of Burrows-Wheeler transform.

Words near BWT in the dictionary

  1. BWR
  2. BWRA
  3. BWRs
  4. BWS
  5. BWSR
  6. BWT
  7. bwthyn
  8. BWTs
  9. bwuh
  10. BWV
  11. BWVs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BWT (page history and authors); Burrows-Wheeler transform (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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