reflected binary

reflected binary [ri′flek·təd ′bī‚ner·ē]

(computer science)

A particular form of gray code which is constructed according to the following rule: Let the first 2^Ncode patterns be given, for anyNgreater than 1; the next 2^Ncode patterns are derived by changing the (N+ 1)-th bit from the right from 0 to 1 and repeating the original 2^Npatterns in reverse order in theNrightmost positions. Also known as reflected code.