Burrows-Wheeler transform

noun

Burrows-Wheeler transform

noun

Etymology Invented by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler in 1994.

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Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.

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