LZW

LZW definition - hacker
Stands for Lempel-Ziv-Welch (Algorithm). The authors, Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, presented the algorithm in 1977 as a lossless universal algorithm for sequential data compression. In 1984, Terry Welch improved the algorithm to its present form.

See Also: Compression.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
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