Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudocodeword

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-docode-word
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The result obtained when a decoder fails to converge on a codeword, but instead converges on some other code structure.

Example Sentences

"We examine the structure of pseudocodewords in Tanner graphs and derive lower bounds of pseudocodeword weights."
"Other notions of pseudocodeword-like structures such as stopping sets are also known to coincide with these polytope vertices."

Etymology

From pseudo- + codeword.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo

Inflected Forms

pseudocodewords (plural)

Questions

What does pseudocodeword mean?: The result obtained when a decoder fails to converge on a codeword, but instead converges on some other code structure.
Where does pseudocodeword come from?: From pseudo- + codeword.

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