Usually means: Convert information into a code.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word encode:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. encode: Merriam-Webster
  2. encode: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encode: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. encode: Collins English Dictionary
  5. encode: Vocabulary.com
  6. Encode, encode: Wordnik
  7. encode: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ENCODE, encode: Wiktionary
  9. encode: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. encode: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. encode: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. encode: Dictionary.com
  13. encode: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ENCODE, Encode (semiotics), Encode: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. encode: Rhymezone
  16. encode: FreeDictionary.org
  17. encode: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. encode: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. encode: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. encode: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. encode: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements), encode: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. encode: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements), encode: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ENCODE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encode: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. encode: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See encoded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To convert (plain text) into code.
verb:  (transitive, communication) To convert source information into another form.
verb:  (biology) To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material.
noun:  An encoding operation.
noun:  Abbreviation of Encyclopedia of DNA Elements; a catalogue of all the functional elements, encoded in the human genome.

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