Huffman codings

A form of Huffman coding — 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).

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noun
  1. pluralplural of Huffman coding
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