encoding
The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
Noun
- The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
Coordinate Terms: codification
- A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
Antonyms: decoding
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autoencoding byte pair encoding character encoding Church encoding font encoding input encoding Manchester encoding percent-encoding run-length encoding URL encoding
Verb
- present participle and gerund of encode
- We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath. - 1988 March 1, “Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein...