CODE

Code

In cryptology, a code is a method used to transform a message into an obscured form so it cannot be understood. Special information or a key is required to read the original message. The usual method is to use a codebook with a list of common phrases or words matched with a codeword. Encoded messages are sometimes termed codetext, while the original message is usually referred to as plaintext.

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CODE

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code

Noun

  1. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
    This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
    1. By synecdoche: a code word, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
      The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
  5. A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
  6. Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
    Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.
    I wrote some code to reformat text documents.
  1. By synecdoche: any piece of a program, of a document or something else written in a computer language.
    This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

Verb

  1. To write software programs.
  2. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  3. To encode.
    We should code the messages we sent out on usenet.
  4. Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
  5. To encode a protein.


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