overcode
A code used to represent multiple (possibly unrelated) data items.
Noun
- A code used to represent multiple (possibly unrelated) data items.
- Not only is it possible to construct an overcode collecting together groups of bill items but groups of overcodes can themselves be held collectively by a single higher overcode. - 1968, Pierce T. Piggott, Lindsay N....
- If an awarding institution cannot be identified as Scottish and the qualification is ONC/OND, HNC/HND, Clerical or Commercial, City and Guilds, Apprenticeship or a degree awarded by the C.N. A. A. boxes 1 and 2 are...
- In the open-ended tabulation below, the responses in capitals are overcodes of individual answers which have been grouped by topic; these overcode answers will total to more than the overall level of likes/dislikes...
- An established code (signifier) that also acts as a new code, either representing additional (related) meanings, or dividing into various nuances of the original meaning.
- Instead of overlaying secondary images by alluding to an existing literary or oral tradition, structural overcodes overlay the secondary images by using technical vocabulary from a different frame of reference. - 2006,...
- Opposed to codes that qualify, and overcodes that bring codes into a single resonance, axioms function by directly conjugating unqualified and decoded flows themselves. - 2012, Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution:...
- Codes and overcodes refer to qualitative differences and similarities between entities; the circulation and distribution of social goods, as Eugene W.Holland points out, is still dependent onthe symbolic system of...
- Inventory that can no longer be sold (such as items that are past their sell-by date).
- Other Pepperidge Farm distributors in the San Francisco Bay Area have no overcode returns to speak of and product which does go out of code can be shipped to Pepperidge Farm thrift stores for full credit or sold on the...
- Suppose, we are just interested in articles that can cause overcode. - 2001, L M M Tijskens, M L A T M Hertog, B M Nicolai, Food Process Modelling, →ISBN, page 93:
Origin
From over- + code.
Forms
Verb
- To use as an overcode for.
- Social interaction would be the place to study how people learn these cultural codes or reasoning structures, which is related to the human ability to overcode meaning in ways that become conventional (Eco 1976). -...
- It is equally self-defeating to reduce people to objects that may be possessed, or to interpret (i.e., overcode, classify, categorize) people or books. - 1998, Vicki Mahaffey, States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and...
- After Skyler asks Walt if he brought his cellphone and he responds, “Which one,” she tells him that she wants him out of the house. In so doing, she tries to subdivide the domestic home and overcode their relationship...
- To act as an overcode for.
- In one example, she describes an advertisement depictin a nude female torso in profile. Wegenstein suggests that in this particular advertisement, the breasts overcode the body in a way that the face previously had...
- Disability suties in education, as an academic field, or the disability rights movement, might be considered molar discourses that overcode the affective everyday experience of disability education. - 2014, Anna...
- Deleuze and Guattari (1987: 9) also recognise that although powerful sign systems may dominate or overcode a multiplicity, such overcoding will inevitably be temporary as 'multiplicities are defined by the outside: by...
- To use a particular code or set of codes too much.
- One of the greatest sources of unreliability is the constant error introduced by the observer because of distortion of his perceptions created by his own needs or values. An observer who sharply disapproves of certain...
- Always overcode. It is better to put both codes down if you have any question about which category is most appropriate. - 1995, United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Advisory Committee on...
- But the Office of the Inspector General study disagreed, saying that doctors overcode for these procedures, and the 29% of errors result in a $20 billion overpayment by this federal program. - 2001, Medical Billing...
- To code too many things or include too many codes in a coding system.
- Coding should be done with great exactness: it is better to "overcode" than to "undercode." - 1972, Alice Schlegel, Male dominance and female autonomy:
- We had an increased percentage of disagreement at the beginning of her ratings since she was overcoding and making too many ratings, due to a misunderstanding about the coding of responses regarding time. - 1978, Kay...
- Don't overcode. Take care to avoid the dangers of “coding fetishism” (Richards, 2009, pp. 109–110), a compulsive activity of researchers who feel they can't think about data unless it is coded. - 2012, Lyn Richards,...