Cyclic Redundancy Check (Noun)
Meaning
An error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The error correction algorithm employed a cyclic redundancy check to identify any corrupted data blocks during disk reads.
- By including a cyclic redundancy check in each sector of the hard drive, the system could detect and correct errors that occurred during data transfer.
- The cyclic redundancy check revealed that several sectors on the disk had been damaged, resulting in data loss.
- To ensure data integrity, the software performed a cyclic redundancy check on each file before writing it to the disk.
- The cyclic redundancy check failed, indicating that the data had been corrupted during transmission and needed to be re-sent.