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Plural of codec

regular plural

The plural of codec is codecs.

Forms of codec

Singularcodec
Pluralcodecs /ˈkəʊdɛks/
Countablecountable

Codecs in a sentence

  • Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.
  • H.264 and AV1 are examples of video codecs.
  • It's all a question of experimenting with the different audio and video codecs.2005, Kyle Rankin, Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video. From the entry incantation

Meaning of codec

  1. noun A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.
  2. noun A media coding format.

Full definition of codec

Questions about the plural of codec

What is the plural of codec?
The plural of codec is codecs.
Is codec countable?
Codec is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: codec (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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