English Explanatory Dictionary

Burrows-Wheeler transform

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.

Word forms

Burrows-Wheeler transform Burrows-Wheeler transforms

Etymology

Invented by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler in 1994.

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