codec

See also: códec

English

Etymology

Blend of coder +‎ decoder

Pronunciation

Audio (UK) (file)

Noun

codec (plural codecs)

(computing) A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.
Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.

Translations

A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal

Armenian: կոդեկ (kodek)
Bulgarian: кодек m (kodek)
Czech: kodek m
Finnish: koodekki
French: codec (fr) m
German: Codec m
Kazakh: кодек (kodek)
Korean: 코덱 (ko) (kodek)
Maori: kotēkē

Polish: kodek (pl) m
Portuguese: codec (pt) m
Russian: кодек (ru) m (kodek)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кодек m

Roman: kodek (sh) m
Spanish: códec (es) m
Ukrainian: кодек m (kodek)

Portuguese

Noun

codec m (plural codecs)

(computing) codec (a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal)

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