error correction code

Noun
  1. (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors (synset 106368831)
    referred to in: telecommunication - (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance
    is a type of: code, computer code - (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
    subtypes: cyclic redundancy check - an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data
    same as: ecc

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