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Lossless compression algorithm

Zstandard is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook. Zstd is the corresponding reference implementation in C, released as open-source software on 31 August 2016. Wikipedia →

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Proper noun Abbreviation of zstandard, a compression algorithm.

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