codes

/kəʊdz/ · noun

Meaning

A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
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.
A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
To write software programs.
To add codes to a dataset.
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
To encode.
To encode a protein.
To call a hospital emergency code.
Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

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