Definition of "code"
- noun
A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
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.
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.
A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
A programming language (or other computer language), a program, a routine written in it, or, more generally, the input of a translator, an interpretator or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
A computer program, or more generally, any defined computing process.
- verb
To write software programs.
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
To encode.
Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
To encode a protein.
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