"anticode" meaning in English

See anticode in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: anticodes [plural]
Etymology: anti- + code Etymology templates: {{pre|en|anti|code}} anti- + code Head templates: {{en-noun}} anticode (plural anticodes)
  1. A set of codewords such that the minimum Hamming distance between any two codewords is large.

Inflected forms

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