Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cbor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cbor
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of concise binary object representation: a binary data serialization format loosely based on JSON.

Example Sentences

"Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a lightweight encoding scheme with support for binary data. CBOR is designed to be extremely lightweight in terms of code and message sizes. CBOR is based on JSON and fully supports the JSON syntax and data types."

Etymology

Sometimes interpreted as a backronym formed from the author's name, Professor Carsten Bormann.

Frequently Paired Words

JSON

Questions

What does cbor mean?: Initialism of concise binary object representation: a binary data serialization format loosely based on JSON.
Where does cbor come from?: Sometimes interpreted as a backronym formed from the author's name, Professor Carsten Bormann.

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