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Huffman codings

Huffman codings is the plural of Huffman coding.

Meaning of Huffman coding

Noun

Huffman coding (countable and uncountable, plural Huffman codings)

  1. An entropy-encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression, involving a variable-length code table derived from the estimated probability of occurrence of each symbol (so that more frequent symbols take less space to store).
    • In Huffman coding, shorter code-words are assigned to more frequent symbols so that the average code-length is reduced.2018, Keshab K. Parhi, Takao Nishitami, editors, Digital Signal Processing for Multimedia Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN

Questions about Huffman codings

What is Huffman codings the plural of?
Huffman codings is the plural of Huffman coding.

Words near Huffman codings in the dictionary

  1. Hufflepuffs
  2. huffler
  3. hufflers
  4. Huffman
  5. Huffman coding
  6. Huffman codings
  7. Huffmaster
  8. Huffmasters
  9. Hufford
  10. Huffords
  11. HuffPo

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