Definitions

1. noun

a person or thing named Huffman

“David Huffman, the inventor of Huffman coding, was a computer scientist.”

2. proper noun

David Huffman or other people with the same name

“Huffman is a well-known expert in coding theory.”

3. verb

to encode or decode data using Huffman coding

“The computer program huffman’d the data for efficient storage.”

4. proper verb

to name or refer to something as Huffman

“The researcher huffman’d the algorithm after David Huffman’s discovery.”