error correction code

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsECC

   Broadercode

   Narrowercyclic redundancy check

   telecommunication

Questions about error correction code

What does error correction code mean?

error correction code means "(telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors".

What is another word for error correction code?

Close synonyms include ECC. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is error correction code a common word?

error correction code 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.