cyclic redundancy check

Noun

Meaning

an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data

Source: WordNet

Hypernyms

ECC error correction code

Examples

One method that avoids the problem of strings having great similarity ("Aaaaaaaaaa" and "Aaaaaaaaab") is to use a Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the string to compute a 32- or 64-bit value. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cyclic polytope cyclic quadrilateral cyclic rate cyclic semigroup cyclic triangle cyclic voltammetry