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puff
[pəf] (electricity)
(mechanical engineering)
A small explosion within a furnace due to combustion conditions.
puff
(algorithm)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.
Opposite: huff.