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puff [pəf]

(electricity)

picofarad

(mechanical engineering)

A small explosion within a furnace due to combustion conditions.

(algorithm)

puff - To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* "PUFF", but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder.

Opposite: huff.

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