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echo check

[ e-koh chek ]

noun

  1. a quality check and error-control technique for data transferred over a computer network or other communications link, in which the data received is stored and also transmitted back to its point of origin, where it is compared with the original data.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of echo check1

First recorded in 1945–50

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