Definition of "code"
noun:
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A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
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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.
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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.
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A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
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A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
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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.
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A computer program, or more generally, any defined computing process.
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verb:
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To write software programs.
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To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
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To encode.
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Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
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To encode a protein.
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