cyclic redundancy check

Definitions of cyclic redundancy check
  1. noun
    an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data
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    type of:
    ECC, error correction code
    (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors
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