▸ noun: A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents. ▸ noun: 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. ▸ noun: Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject. ▸ noun: A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation. ▸ noun: By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity. ▸ noun: A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning. ▸ noun: (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords. ▸ noun: (programming, uncountable) 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. ▸ noun: (scientific programming) A program. ▸ noun: (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety. ▸ noun: (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff. ▸ noun: (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group. ▸ verb: (computing) To write software programs. ▸ verb: (transitive) To add codes to (a data set). ▸ verb: To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. ▸ verb: (cryptography) To encode. ▸ verb: (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein. ▸ verb: (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code. ▸ verb: (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest. ▸ noun: A surname.
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