English word origin

Etymology of LHA

Abbreviation * (data compression): Short for Lempel-Ziv Huffman archiver, after the mathematicians on whose work it was based.

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Unnumbered source etymology

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name

A particular data compression format.

noun

Initialism of landing, helicopter, assault: A type of amphibious assault ship, a warship.

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Abbreviation * (data compression): Short for Lempel-Ziv Huffman archiver, after the mathematicians on whose work it was based.

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