Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

run-length encoding

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables
run-length- en-cod-ing
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A simple data compression scheme in which sequences of the same item are replaced by one such item and a count (so for example the text BBBBB is stored as a single B with count of 5).

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

run-length encodings (plural)

Questions

What does run-length encoding mean?
A simple data compression scheme in which sequences of the same item are replaced by one such item and a count (so for example the text BBBBB is stored as a single B with count of 5).

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