(computing theory) 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).

plural of hash code

plural of Huffman coding

plural of region code

(telecommunications) A line code in which the encoding of each data bit has at least one transition and occupies the same time.

(computing theory) 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.

plural of prefix coding

plural of code of conduct

plural of Hamming code

plural of blue code