data compression

Noun

Meaning

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data compression (uncountable)

(computing) Any of several techniques for reducing the number of bits needed to represent an item of digital data, either to save storage or to use less bandwidth when transmitting it

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Examples

If you use conventional data compression on the [human brain's] genome, you get about 23 million bytes (a small fraction of the size of Microsoft Word), which is a level of complexity we can handle. Ray Kurzweil

Data compression can significantly skew throughput calculations, including generating values greater than 100%. Source: Internet

Data compression The field of digital signal processing relies heavily on operations in the frequency domain (i.e. on the Fourier transform). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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