codec
nounEtymology Syllabic abbreviation of coder decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.
- Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A media coding format.
- H.264 and AV1 are examples of video codecs.