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Ziv-Lempel compression

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Ziv-Lempel compression [′ziv ′lem·pəl kəm′presh·ən]
(computer science)
A data compression technique in which data is represented by a sequence of numbers standing for the positions of character strings in a dictionary; this dictionary initially contains every character in the alphabet and is continually enlarged by forming new strings from the string just compressed and the upcoming character in the text.


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