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< Old French code (“system of law”) < Latin codex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊd
Noun
code (plural codes)
- A very short abbreviation, often with little correlation to the item it represents
- You assigned the same "unique" code to two intake-categories, causing a database error!
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- "The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code"." -Wharton
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- (uncountable) Source code.
- (uncountable) A computer program, or more generally, any defined computing process.
Derived terms
- binary code
- civil code
- codebook
- codeword
- colour code
- Gray code
- Morse code
- pseudocode
- sort code
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See also
Verb
to code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)
- (computing) To write software programs.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (cryptography) To encode.
- We should code the messages we sent out on usenet.
- (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
Translations
- Bulgarian: шифровам, кодирам
- Dutch: coderen nl(nl)
- Portuguese: programar pt(pt) (1); codificar pt(pt) (2-3);
- Russian: кодировать (kodírovat') (impf.), закодировать (zakodírovat') (pf.) (3)
Derived terms
External links
- code in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- code in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Dutch
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code
French
Pronunciation
Noun
code m. (plural codes)
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Italian
Noun
code f.
- Plural form of coda.
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Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:16:26 GMT+00:00
MarketWatch (press release) ... concerns involving mine safety have lawmakers debating new regulations that will increase the max penalty for violating code from $7000 to $25000. ...
