1. Loi.
2. Règlement. Code de bonne conduite.
3. Système de codage. Code postal.
4. (Informatique) Programme source.
5. (Au pluriel) Feux de croisement. Rouler en codes.
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.