"rateless" meaning in English

See rateless in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: rate + -less Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|rate|less}} rate + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} rateless (not comparable)
  1. (mathematics) Describing a family of codes whose higher rate codes have codewords that are prefixes of those of the lower rate codes. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Coding theory, Mathematics

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