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rateless

rateless adjective: describing a family of codes whose higher rate codes have codewords that are prefixes of those of the lower rate codes.

Adjective

rateless (not comparable)

  1. Describing a family of codes whose higher rate codes have codewords that are prefixes of those of the lower rate codes.

Origin of rateless

From rate + -less.

Words formed from rateless

Questions about rateless

What does rateless mean?
Rateless means describing a family of codes whose higher rate codes have codewords that are prefixes of those of the lower rate codes.
What part of speech is rateless?
Rateless is an adjective.

Words near rateless in the dictionary

  1. ratee
  2. rateen
  3. ratees
  4. Ratekau
  5. ratel
  6. rateless
  7. ratelessly
  8. ratelessness
  9. ratels
  10. ratemaker
  11. ratemakers

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