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Code

noun

A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones). Synonym: codification.

A coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy.

(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions. Synonym: computer code.

verb

Attach a code to.

Convert ordinary language into code. Synonyms: cipher, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code.

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"Code" Quotes from Famous Books

... generations; the Atharvan represents different ages; each Br[a]hmana appears to belong in part to one era, in part to another; the earliest S[u]tras (manuals of law, etc.) have been interpolated; the earliest metrical code is a composite; the great epic is the work of centuries; and not only do the Upanishads and Pur[a]nas represent collectively many different periods, but exactly to which period each individually is to be assigned remains ...

— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins

... the Dean's wisdom, or the somewhat limited view that talking is only to be practised when it chances to be useful. Are we never to discuss the obvious or to deplore the inevitable? From so stern a code human nature revolts, and the storm of volubility went on in spite of the silence of the Dean of St. Neot's. Even this silence was imperfect in so far as the Dean said a word or two in private to Morewood when he ...

— Quisante • Anthony Hope

... and radiotelephone communications stations (improvements being made) domestic: mostly cable and open-wire lines; a recently completed domestic satellite telecommunications system links Nouakchott with regional capitals international: country code - 222; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... invention are almost unbelievable. The idea had come to him years before, when he had worked out an instrument that would not only record telegrams by indenting a strip of paper with the dots and dashes of the Morse code, but would also repeat the message any number of times by running the indented strip ...

— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson

... Code of 1857 derived from Spanish law and subsequent codes influenced by French and Austrian law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction note: Chile is in the process of completely overhauling its criminal justice system; ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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