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RAS Syndrome, Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome, refers to the use of one or more of the words that make up an acronym in conjunction with the abbreviated form (e.g. saying “I’m going to the ATM Machine” when the “M” in ATM already stands for “machine”); the redundancy of the word “syndrome” in the name of the effect is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the effect itself.
Today's Term
ECC Memory
ECC Memory (short for Error-Correcting Code Memory) is a type of computer memory system that is specifically designed to automatically detect and correct corruption and/or errors in data as it passes in and out of memory.
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