prefix coding

Meaning

Noun

• a coding system that uses (typically variable-length) codes that are distinguished by their "prefix property", which requires that there is no code word in the system that is a prefix (initial segment) of any other code word in the system.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• coding

Broader meaning words

• Elias delta coding
• Elias gamma coding
• Elias omega coding
• Fibonacci coding
• Golomb Rice code
• Huffman coding
• Levenshtein coding
• Shannon–Fano coding
• Straddling checkerboard
• unary coding