ECC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ECC mean? 

• ECC (noun)
  The noun ECC has 1 sense:

1. (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors

  Familiarity information: ECC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ECC; error correction code

Hypernyms ("ECC" is a kind of...):

code; computer code ((computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions)

Domain category:

telecommunication ((often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ECC"):

cyclic redundancy check (an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data)

 Context examples 

Contraction of the heart is a complex process initiated by the electrical excitation of cardiac myocytes (excitation-contraction coupling, ECC).

(Cardiac Muscle Contraction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)