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code (s), codes (pl)
1. A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.
2. An organized collection of regulations and rules of procedure, conduct, or specifications; such as, a traffic code.
3. A system of signals which are used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages which may be secret or generally understood; such as, street signs, grammatical punctuation marks, etc.
4. A group of symbols, letters, or words which have certain meanings that are used for transmitting messages requiring secrecy or brief expressions.
5. A method of symbols and rules that are used to represent instructions for a computer; such as, a computer program.
6. A form of coded messages used in transmitting information in a hospital; especially, when the information is broadcast over a public address system; for example, "code blue" or "code 9" could indicate a particular type of emergency to an emergency care team.
7. Etymology: from about 1300, from Old French code, "system of laws, law-book", from Latin codex, earlier caudex, "book, book of laws"; literally, "tree trunk", and then, "a book made up of wooden tablets covered with wax for writing".
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code, codes, coding, coded (verb forms)
1. To arrange and to systematize such things as laws and regulations into a code.
2. To convert a message or specific signals or signs into code: "The city was coding street signs for greater traffic control."
3. In genetics, to specify the genetic code for an amino acid or a polypeptide.
4. To write or to revise a computer program: "He was trying to code a program that would make the computer work more efficiently."
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(Greek: covering, covered, to cover; roof; by extension, secret, secret writing, applied to a secret code, codes, or ciphers that are hidden)
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autocode (s), autocodes (pl); automatic code (s), automatic codes (pl)
The process of using a computer to convert automatically a symbolic code into a machine code.
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optimized code (s) (noun), optimized codes (pl)
In computer programming, the machine-language product of a complier that increases the quality of computer operations and memory for the target computer so that the program execution will take the least amount of time and memory for the best operation.
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routing code (s), routing codes (pl) (nouns)
This entry is located in the following unit: rupt-, -rupting, -ruption (page 5)