ETYM French, from Latin codex, 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.
1. A set of rules or principles or laws especially written ones; SYN. codification.
2. A coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy.
3. (Computer science) The symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions; SYN. computer code.
In law, the body of a country’s civil or criminal law. The Code Napoléon in France 1804–10 was widely copied in European countries with civil law systems.
ETYM. frz.
1. Schlüssel zur Entzifferung geheimer Nachrichten; im Nachrichtenwesen Tabellen mit Übertragungsvorschriften oder Kurzbegriff für häufig wiederkehrende Meldungen.
2. In der Datenverarbeitung das binäre System, mit dem die Rechenbefehle im Computer verarbeitet werden.
3. In der Linguistik die soziale Sprachebene, die soziolog. abgrenzbare Ausformung einer Sprache im Gegensatz zum (Dialekt.
4. In der Genetik die Abfolge der Erbinformationen auf der DNS.
To attach a code to.
1. Program instructions. Source code consists of human-readable statements written by a programmer in a programming language. Machine code consists of numerical instructions that the computer can recognize and execute and that were converted from source code. See also data, program.
2. A system of symbols used to convert information from one form to another. A code for converting information in order to conceal it is often called a cipher.
3. One of a set of symbols used to represent information.
To write program instructions in a programming language. See also program.