ECC

Other forms: ECCS

Definitions of ECC
  1. noun
    (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors
    synonyms: error correction code
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    types:
    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
    type of:
    code, computer code
    (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
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