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.
Unit Identification Code. The Unit Identification Code (UIC) is a six character alphanumeric code which uniquely identifies each United States Department of Defense entity. The first character is the Service Designator: The next three characters indicate the Parent Unit Designator. These vary from branch to branch and provide information about the type of unit. For example, in the US Army, the parent unit designation breaks down as such: