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English
Etymology
From the names of its creators: Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɛl zɛd ˈdʌb.əl.juː/
Proper noun
LZW
- (computing) Initialism of Lempel–Ziv–Welch, a lossless data compression algorithm.
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