coding

The process of encoding or decoding.

Adjective

  1. Applied to vehicles when they are under number coding.
    • My car is coding today, so I cannot drive.

Origin

Etymology tree English code English -ing English coding From code + -ing.

Derived

anticoding autocoding coding theory coding time double coding dual-coding theory hard-coding Huffman coding live coding Manchester coding noncoding non-coding DNA non-coding RNA number coding precoding predictive coding prefix coding pseudocoding V-coding vibe coding

Noun

  1. The process of encoding or decoding.
  2. An encoding.
  3. The process of writing computer software code.
    • I spent all night on the coding, but the program was ready by morning.
    • I spent decades as a knowledge worker in technology, precisely where society wanted me—in front of screens, building digital products, becoming the very kind of specialist I’m now critiquing. Like many of my generation,...

    Synonyms: computer programming

  4. A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
  5. An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
  6. A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
  7. Ellipsis of number coding.

Forms

codings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of code