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LZW

LZW is the initialism of Lempel–Ziv–Welch.

Origin of LZW

From the names of its creators: Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch.

Questions about LZW

What is LZW the initialism of?
LZW is the initialism of Lempel–Ziv–Welch.

Words near LZW in the dictionary

  1. LZ
  2. LZMA
  3. LZO
  4. LZS
  5. LZSS
  6. LZW
  7. Lào Cai
  8. Láadan
  9. Lâm Đồng
  10. Lâm Ấp
  11. lä

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LZW (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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