Updated April 10, 2017. In grammar, a demonstrative is a determiner or a pronoun that points to a particular noun or to the noun it replaces. There are four demonstratives in English: the near demonstratives this and these, and the far demonstratives that and those. This and that are singular; these and those are plural.
In the context of video compression, codec is a concatenation of encoder and decoderâa device that only compresses is typically called an encoder, and one that only decompresses is a decoder. The compressed data format usually conforms to a standard video compression specification.
Etymology[edit] Chic is a French word, established in English since at least the 1870s. Early references in English dictionaries classified it as slang and New Zealand-born lexicographer Eric Partridge noted, with reference to its colloquial meaning, that it was not so used in Fr[ench]..