recode

To code again or differently.

Verb

  1. To code again or differently.
    • The program below, taken from Example 8.7, is recoded with several errors that are flaggable by the assembler. - 1963, Philip M. Sherman, Programming and coding the IBM 709-7090-7094 computers, page 126:

    1. (transitive) To reprogram; to refactor; to redevelop.

    2. (transitive) To recipher.

      Coordinate Terms: decipher decode decrypt encipher encode encrypt redecipher reencrypt

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English code English recode From re- + code.

Forms

recodes recoding recoded

Derived

recoder