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Codes vs Codec - What's the difference?

codes | codec |

As a verb codes

is .

As a noun codec is

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

codes

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (code)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    codec

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia codec)
  • (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.