cyclic redundancy check

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   an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data

   Broadererror correction code

Questions about cyclic redundancy check

What does cyclic redundancy check mean?

cyclic redundancy check means "an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data".

Is cyclic redundancy check a common word?

cyclic redundancy check is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.