Code

What “Code” means

Noun

1. A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
2. 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.
3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
5. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

Verb

1. To write software programs.
2. To add codes to (a data set).
3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
4. To encode.
5. To encode a protein.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Latin caudex Latin cōdex Old French codebor. Middle English code English code From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”). Doublet of codex. Verb etymology 1, verb sense 7 is an ellipsis of code blue (“medical emergency”).

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