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encode

[ en-kohd ]

verb (used with object)

, en·cod·ed, en·cod·ing.
  1. to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.


encode

/ ɪnˈkəʊd /

verb

  1. to convert (a message) from plain text into code
  2. computing to convert (characters and symbols) into a digital form as a series of impulses Compare decode
  3. to convert (an electrical signal) into a form suitable for transmission
  4. to convert (a nerve signal) into a form that can be received by the brain
  5. to use (a word, phrase, etc, esp of a foreign language) in the construction appropriate to it in that language
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


encode

/ ĕn-kōd /

  1. To specify the genetic code for the synthesis of a protein molecule or a part of a protein molecule.


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Derived Forms

  • enˈcodement, noun
  • enˈcoder, noun
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Other Words From

  • en·coda·ble adjective
  • en·codement noun
  • en·coder noun
  • misen·code verb (used with object) misencoded misencoding
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Word History and Origins

Origin of encode1

First recorded in 1930–35; en- 1 + code
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Example Sentences

We start from the digital information of what the virus encodes for and go on from there.

It encoded motion and mathematics into a single, glinting geometric object.

The hippocampus is most famous for its ability to encode episodic memories—the memory of whats, whens, wheres, and whos.

Modern deep learning is at the very least biologically-inspired, encoding information in the strength of connections between large networks of individual computing units known as neurons.

Experiments even showed that people were more likely to forget words that were presented exactly at systole than words that they saw and encoded during the rest of the cardiac cycle.

Shun distractions, in other words, and you should encode events more effectively.

To encode a message which may be your last words on earth is not the easiest of tasks.

Writing helped to encode his logic of proper inference from premises expressed in sentences.

But once the scale changes, it is doubtful that we could encode the resulting complexity in such formalizations.

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