ERROR CORRECTION CODE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors

Synonyms:

ECC; error correction code

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("error correction code" is a kind of...):

code; computer code ((computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions)

Domain category:

telecommunication ((often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "error correction code"):

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)