run-length encoding
English
Noun
run-length encoding (countable and uncountable, plural run-length encodings)Category:English lemmas#RUNLENGTHENCODINGCategory:English nouns#RUNLENGTHENCODINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#RUNLENGTHENCODINGCategory:English countable nouns#RUNLENGTHENCODINGCategory:English countable nouns#RUNLENGTHENCODINGCategory:English multiword terms#RUNLENGTHENCODINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUNLENGTHENCODINGCategory:Pages with entries#RUN-LENGTH%20ENCODINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#RUN-LENGTH%20ENCODING
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#RUNLENGTHENCODING) 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).
