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Meaning of Huffman coding | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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).

countable, uncountable

Examples

“In Huffman coding, shorter code-words are assigned to more frequent symbols so that the average code-length is reduced.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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