string coding

string coding definition - telecom
A compression technique that replaces long strings of redundant data with code words of much shorter fixed length. See also compression and run-length encoding.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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