codex-, codi-, cod-

The process of using a computer to convert automatically a symbolic code into a machine code.

A standard method of identifying the manufacturer and product category of a particular item.

The barcode was adopted in the 1970's because the bars were easier for machines to read than optical characters.

The main drawbacks of barcodes are that they don't identify unique items and so scanners have to have "line of sight" to read them.

A computer peripheral for printing barcode labels or tags which can be attached to physical objects.

Barcode printers are commonly used to label cartons before shipment or to label retail items with barcode symbology; that is, a specific type of barcode for tracking commercial items in stores.

In computer science, an optical scanning device that reads texts which have been converted into a special bar code.

Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code code.

A way of representing text or computer processor instructions by the use of the binary number system's two-binary digits 0 and 1.

A binary system in general is any system that allows just two choices; such as, a switch in an electronic system or a simple true or false test.

1. A code of law that defined and, especially, limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War in the United States.
2. Statutes passed by pro-slavery, Southern states of the U.S.A. before and after the Civil War, which were meant to limit the civil rights of slaves or freed slaves.

All black codes were eventually repealed.

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".

A drug needed for the emergency care of patients; especially, those with sudden onset of life-threatening cardiopulmonary conditions.

Included are drugs and equipment required for treating shock, cardiac arrhythmias, and cardiac standstill.

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."

1. Someone who compiles a system of signals that are used to represent letters or numbers for transmitting messages.
2. Those who form coding programs for computer applications, internet sites, etc.

A manuscript volume, especially of a classic work or of the Scriptures.

Etymology: Latin codex, codic, "tree trunk, wooden tablet, book", a variant of caudex, "tree trunk".

Codex is a variant of caudex, a wooden stump to which petty criminals were tied in ancient Rome, rather like our stocks. This was also the word for a book made of thin wooden strips coated with wax upon which one wrote.

The usual modern sense of codex, “book formed of bound leaves of paper or parchment,” is due to Christianity. By the first century B.C., there existed at Rome notebooks made of leaves of parchment, used for rough copy, first drafts, and notes. By the first century A.D., such manuals were used for commercial copies of classical literature. The Christians adopted this parchment manual format for the Scriptures used in their liturgy because a codex was easier to handle than a scroll and because one could write on both sides of a parchment but on only one side of a papyrus scroll.

By the early second century all Scripture was reproduced in codex form. In traditional Christian iconography, therefore, the Hebrew prophets are represented holding scrolls and the Evangelists holding codices.

1. An addition that makes changes to a will which is a legal document saying who gets one's money and property when someone dies.
2. A supplement modifying a will or revoking some provision of it.
3. Etymology: from Middle French codicille, from Latin codicillus, "a short writing, a small writing tablet"; from codicis a form of codex, from an earlier caudex, "book, book of laws"; literally, "a tree trunk" and so, a book made up of wooden tablets covered with wax for writing.

1. The study of manuscripts and books from pre-modern cultures and time periods. : The codicology of a codex, or an older handwritten book, is closely related to "palaeography", the study of handwriting in older manuscripts, and to "philology", the study of language and culture in older texts.

Susan was very fascinated with the handwriting in ancient books and her enthusiasm for it started with the diaries she inherited from her grandfather; so, she decided to study codicology so she could gain a better understanding!"

2. Etymology: from Latin codex, genitive form of codicis, "notebook" or "book". The suffix is from Greek, legein, "the study of a specific subject."

1. The process of creating systematic rules to govern a specific activity; such as, the cataloging of bibliographic materials.
2. The systematic arrangement of laws, rules, etc.
3. One of the forms of systematization of laws and other legislative instruments regulating some field of social relations.
4. The collection of the principles of a system of law into one body or organization.
5. The act, process, or result of stating the rules and principles that are applicable in a given legal order to one or more broad areas of life in this form of a code.