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prefix codings

prefix codings is the plural of prefix coding.

Meaning of prefix coding

Noun

prefix coding (plural prefix codings)

  1. A coding system that uses (typically variable-length) codes that are distinguished by their "prefix property", which requires that there is no code word in the system that is a prefix (initial segment) of any other code word in the system.
    • A prefix coding can use a code with code words {9, 55}, as it has the prefix property. However, a code consisting of {9, 5, 59, 55} is not allowed, as "5" is a prefix of "59" and also of "55".

Questions about prefix codings

What is prefix codings the plural of?
Prefix codings is the plural of prefix coding.

Words near prefix codings in the dictionary

  1. prefitting
  2. prefix
  3. prefix code
  4. prefix codes
  5. prefix coding
  6. prefix codings
  7. prefix notation
  8. prefix tree
  9. prefix trees
  10. prefix'd
  11. prefixa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefix codings (page history and authors); prefix coding (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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