English Explanatory Dictionary

coding

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of encoding or decoding.
  2. An encoding.
  3. The process of writing computer software code.
  4. A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
  5. An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
  6. A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
  7. Ellipsis of number coding.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of code
adj
  1. Applied to vehicles when they are under number coding.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

coding codings

Etymology

Etymology tree English code English -ing English coding From code + -ing.

Synonyms

computer programming

Derived words

anticoding autocoding coding theory coding time double coding dual-coding theory hard-coding Huffman coding live coding Manchester coding noncoding non-coding DNA non-coding RNA number coding precoding predictive coding prefix coding pseudocoding V-coding vibe coding
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