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Meaning:

Noun:

  • 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 very short abbreviation, often with little correlation to the item it represents
  • crypto A cryptographic system using a words or phrases into codewords.
  • uncountable A computer program, or more generally, any defined computing process.
  • uncountable Source code.

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Verb:

  • computing To write software programs.
  • crypto To encode.
  • medical Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
  • To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.

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