Huffman Coding Definition

noun

(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).

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Singular:
Huffman coding
Plural:
huffman-codings

Origin of Huffman Coding

  • Named after its inventor, David A. Huffman.

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