CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cyclic redundancy check mean? 

• CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK (noun)
  The noun CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cyclic redundancy check" is a kind of...):

ECC; error correction code ((telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors)