Data corruption is the receiving of data which is different from that which was transmitted or otherwise intended. Error checking is usually used to prevent this.
A corrupted society is a society with low moral values.
A language or a text can be corrupted into a broken form or a different meaning.
Parts of a machine can be corrupted, meaning broken.
Corruption is used, especially poetically, to describe the decomposition of biological matter. This usage is archaic.
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