Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

huffman coding

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.66 in modern English

Syllables: huff-man -cod-ing
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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).

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In Huffman coding, shorter code-words are assigned to more frequent symbols so that the average code-length is reduced."

Etymology

Named after its inventor David A. Huffman (1925–1999).

Usage

Inflected Forms

Huffman codings (plural)

Questions

What does huffman coding mean?: 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).
Where does huffman coding come from?: Named after its inventor David A. Huffman (1925–1999).

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