| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Error-detecting code | Business | A code in which each telegraph or data signal conforms to specific rules of construction, so that departures from this construction in the received signal can generally be detected automatically. Note: Error-detecting codes require more signal elements than are necessary to convey the basic information. (references) | |
| Error-detecting code | Computing | A code in which the representation of each character conforms to specific rules of construction. These rules ensure that certain combinations of the elements out of which the set of characters is constructed are not valid: these combinations can be recognized and rejected as errors. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Error-detecting code | Meteorology & Standards | A computer code in which errors in a code expression produce a forbidden combination. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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