codec

noun

co·​dec ˈkō-ˌdek 

: a device or software system that can digitize and often compress an audio or video signal for transmission (as over a telephone line) and convert an incoming signal to audio or video for reception

To permit satellite communication through such a compact antenna, an electronic device called a voice coder-decoder—or codec—translates speech into a digital signal.

—Discover

Examples of codec in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For iPhone users, there is also support for the AAC codec that Apple uses. —Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025

The headphones connect over Bluetooth 5.4 and support a respectable set of codecs. —PC Magazine, 6 May 2025

Created by some of the same developers behind the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing software, Skype was originally released in 2003, at around the same time when increasing broadband Internet availability and better video compression codecs were solving the bandwidth problem. —ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025

The speaker only supports the SBC Bluetooth codec, while the Field 7 supports the LDAC codec for high-res audio (along with AAC and SBC). —PC Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025

Word History

Etymology

coder + decoder

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for codec

• aztec
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