huffman coding

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Synonyms: huffman encoding

Antonyms: huffman encoding

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|algorithm}} An [[entropy]]-[[encode|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).

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