English Explanatory Dictionary

encoding

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
  2. A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of encode

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/ /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-encoding.wav

Word forms

encoding encodings

Antonyms

decoding

Related words

Unicode UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-7 iso-8859-1 cp-1252

Derived words

autoencoding byte pair encoding character encoding Church encoding font encoding input encoding Manchester encoding percent-encoding run-length encoding URL encoding
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