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English
Etymology
Based on the LZ77 and LZ78 algorithms devised by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv.
Proper noun
LZMA
- (computing) Initialism of Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm.
2007, David Salomon, Data Compression: The Complete Reference, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 241:LZMA is the main (as well as the default) algorithm used in the popular 7z (or 7-Zip) compression software [7z 06]. Both 7z and LZMA are the creations of Igor Pavlov.