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Error-Correcting System
  • In digital data transmission, a system employing either forward error correction (FEC) or automatic repeat-request (ARQ) techniques such that most transmission errors are automatically removed from the data unit prior to delivery to the destination facility.
  • See also ARQ, code, communications system, error, error control, error correcting code, error-detecting code, forward error correction.