Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

erasure code

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English

Syllables: era-sure -code
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A forward-error-correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of k symbols into a longer message with n symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the n symbols.

Inflected Forms

erasure codes (plural)

Questions

What does erasure code mean?: A forward-error-correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of k symbols into a longer message with n symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the n symbols.

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