leading character elimination

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leading character elimination [¦lēd·iŋ ′kar·ik·tər i‚lim·ə′nā·shən]

(computer science)

A method of data compression used for dictionaries that are stored in alphabetical order, in which the coding for each word has two parts: the number of characters in common with the previous word, and the unique suffix.

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