run-length encoding

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A simple data compression scheme in which sequences of the same item are replaced by one such item and a count (so for example the text BBBBB is stored as a single B with count of 5).

Word forms

run-length encoding run-length encodings
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