Meaning

2 senses
  1. A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.

    Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.

    Codec

    кодекkodek

    кодекkodek

  2. A media coding format.

    H.264 and AV1 are examples of video codecs.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal:
Русский
By meaning 1
A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal:

Origin

Syllabic abbreviation of coder decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.

Syllabic abbreviation of coder decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.

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Forms

plural: codecs
Singularcodec
Pluralcodecs

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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