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compact trie

(data structure)

Definition: A trie in which nonbranching subtrees leading to leaf nodes are cut off.

Generalization (I am a kind of ...)
trie.

See also Patricia tree.

Note: The name comes from reTRIEval and is pronounced, "tree". See the historical note at trie.

Author: PEB


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Paul E. Black, "compact trie", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed. 24 August 2017. (accessed TODAY) Available from: https://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/compactTrie.html