Deduplication
The term deduplication has meaning in several contexts.
- In computer data storage it is also known as capacity optimization or single-instance storage. In this context it is also related to content-addressable storage and delta encoding.
- In the field of database management is it also known as record linkage.
- In the field of mathematics it is known as factorization.
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