code

code
    n 1: a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written
         ones) [syn: {code}, {codification}]
    2: a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring
       brevity or secrecy
    3: (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or
       instructions in a computer program or the set of such
       instructions [syn: {code}, {computer code}]
    v 1: attach a code to; "Code the pieces with numbers so that you
         can identify them later"
    2: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the
       message for security reasons" [syn: {code}, {encipher},
       {cipher}, {cypher}, {encrypt}, {inscribe}, {write in code}]
    

Code \Code\ (k[=o]d), n. [F., fr. L. codex, caudex, the stock or
   stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with
   wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a
   writing.]
   1. A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the
      rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are
      set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by
      public authority; a digest.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian
         is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code" .
         --Wharton.
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   2. Any system of rules or regulations relating to one
      subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the
      regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
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   3. Any set of symbols or combinations of symbols used for
      communication in any medium, such as by telegraph or
      semaphore. See {Morse code}, and {error-correcting code}.
      [PJC]

   Note: A system of rules for making communications at sea by
         means of signals has been referred to as the

   {naval code}.
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   4. Any set of standards established by the governing
      authority of a geopolitical entity restricting the ways
      that certain activities may be performed, especially the
      manner in which buildings or specific systems within
      buildings may be constructed; as, a building code; a
      plumbing code; a health code.
      [PJC]

   5. Any system used for secrecy in communication, in which the
      content of a communication is converted, prior to
      transmission, into symbols whose meaning is known only to
      authorized recipients of the message; such codes are used
      to prevent unauthorized persons from learning the content
      of the communication. The process of converting a
      communication into secret symbols by means of a code is
      called {encoding} or {encryption}. However, unauthorized
      persons may learn the code by various means, as in
      {code-breaking}.
      [PJC]

   6. An {error-correcting code}. See below.
      [PJC]

   7. (Computers) The set of instructions for a computer program
      written by a programmer, usually in a programming language
      such as Fortran, C, Cobol, Java, C++, etc.; also, the
      executable binary {object code}. All such programs except
      for the binary {object code} must be converted by a
      compiler program into {object code}, which is the
      arrangement of data bits which can be directly interpreted
      by a computer.
      [PJC]

   {Code civil} or {Code Napoleon}, a code enacted in France in
      1803 and 1804, embodying the law of rights of persons and
      of property generally. --Abbot.

   {error-correcting code} (Computers) A set of symbols used to
      represent blocks of binary data, in which the original
      block of data is represented by a larger block of data
      which includes additional bits arranged in such a way that
      the original data may be read even if one or more of the
      bits of the encoded data is changed, as in a noisy
      communicaiton channel. Various codes are available which
      can correct different numbers or patterns of errors in the
      transmitted data. Such codes are used to achieve higher
      accuracy in data transmission, and in data storage devices
      such as disk drives and tape drives.

   {object code} (Computers) the arrangement of bits stored in
      computer memory or a data storage device which, when fed
      to the instruction processor of a computer's central
      processing unit, can be interpreted directly as
      instructions for execution.

   {genetic code} (Biochemistry, genetics) The set of
      correspondences between sequences of three bases (codons)
      in a RNA chain to the amino acid which those three bases
      represent in the process of protein synthesis. Thus, the
      sequence UUU codes for phenylalanine, and AUG codes for
      methionine. There are twenty-one naturally-occurring amino
      acids, and sixty-four possible arrangements of three bases
      in RNA; thus some of the amino acids are represented by
      more than one codon. Several codons do not represent amino
      acids, but cause termination of the synthesis of a growing
      amnio acid chain.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

   Note: The genetic code is represented by the following table:
         The Genetic Code
         =====================================================
         UUU Phenylalanine (Phe) AUU Isoleucine (Ile)
         UCU Serine (Ser) ACU Threonine (Thr)
         UAU Tyrosine (Tyr) AAU Asparagine (Asn)
         UGU Cysteine (Cys) AGU Serine (Ser)
         UUC Phe AUC Ile
         UCC Ser ACC Thr
         UAC Tyr AAC Asn
         UGC Cys AGC Ser
         UUA Leucine (Leu) AUA Ile
         UCA Ser ACA Thr
         UAA STOP AAA Lysine (Lys)
         UGA STOP AGA Arginine (Arg)
         UUG Leu AUG Methionine (Met) or START
         UCG Ser ACG Thr
         UAG STOP AAG Lys
         UGG Tryptophan (Trp) AGG Arg
         CUU Leucine (Leu) GUU Valine Val
         CCU Proline (Pro) GCU Alanine (Ala)
         CAU Histidine (His) GAU Aspartic acid (Asp)
         CGU Arginine (Arg) GGU Glycine (Gly)
         CUC Leu GUC (Val)
         CCU Pro GCC Ala
         CAC His GAC Asp
         CGC Arg GGC Gly
         CUA Leu GUA Val
         CCA Pro GCA Ala
         CAA Glutamine (Gln) GAA Glutamic acid (Glu)
         CGA Arg GGA Gly
         CUG Leu GUG Val
         CCG Pro GCG Ala
         CAG Gln GAG Glu
         CGG Arg GGG Gly
         [PJC]
    

Code \Code\ (k[=o]d), v. t.
   1. To convert (a text or other information) into a encoded
      form by means of a code[5].
      [PJC]

   2. To write a computer program in a programming language; as,
      to code a sorting routine.
      [PJC]
    

Code \Code\ (k[=o]d), v. i. (Biochemistry, genetics)
   To serve as the nucleotide sequence directing the synthesis
   of a particular amino acid or sequence of amino acids in
   protein biosynthesis; as, this sequence of nucleotides
   encodes the hemoglobin alpha chain..
   [PJC]
    

code


   1. n. The stuff that software writers write, either in source form or
   after translation by a compiler or assembler. Often used in opposition
   to "data", which is the stuff that code operates on. Among hackers
   this is a mass noun, as in "How much code does it take to do a {bubble
   sort}?", or "The code is loaded at the high end of RAM." Among
   scientific programmers it is sometimes a count noun equilvalent to
   "program"; thus they may speak of "codes" in the plural. Anyone
   referring to software as "the software codes" is probably a {newbie}
   or a {suit}.

   2. v. To write code. In this sense, always refers to source code
   rather than compiled. "I coded an Emacs clone in two hours!" This verb
   is a bit of a cultural marker associated with the Unix and
   minicomputer traditions (and lately Linux); people within that culture
   prefer v. `code' to v. `program' whereas outside it the reverse is
   normally true.
    

code

   1. <software> Instructions for a computer in some programming
   language, often {machine language} (machine code).

   The word "code" is often used to distinguish instructions from
   {data} (e.g. "The code is marked 'read-only'") whereas the
   word "{software}" is used in contrast with "{hardware}" and
   may consist of more than just code.

   (2000-04-08)

   2. <cryptography> Some method of {encryption} or the resulting
   encrypted message.

   (2006-11-10)
    

CODE
       Client/server Open Development Environment (Powersoft)
       
    

CODE
       COlor Depth Enhancement (ATI)
       
    

CODE, legislation. Signifies in general a collection of laws. It is a name 
given by way of eminence to a collection of such laws made by the 
legislature. Among the most noted may be mentioned the following: 
    

CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau 
Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, 
and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. They 
were authorized to add a system of commercial law, and a code of practice. 
The code the prepared having been adopted, was promulgated in 1824, under 
the title of the "Civil Code of the State of Louisiana." 
     2. The code is based on the Code Napoleon, with proper and judicious 
modifications, suitable for the state of Louisiana. It is composed of three 
books: 1. the first treats of persons; 2. the second of things, and of the 
different modifications of property; 3. and the third of the different modes 
of acquiring the property of things. It contains 3522 articles, numbered 
from the beginning, for the convenience of reference. 
     3. This code, it is said, contains many inaccurate definitions. The 
legislature modified and changed many of the provisions relating to the 
positive legislation, but adopted the definitions and abstract doctrines of 
the code without material alterations. From this circumstance, as well as 
from the inherent difficulty of the subject, the positive provisions of the 
code are often at variance with the theoretical part, which was intended to 
elucidate them. 13 L. R. 237. 
     4. This code went into operation on the 20th day of May,. 1825. 11 L. 
R. 60. It is in both the French and English languages; and in construing it, 
it is a rule that when the expressions used in the French text of the code 
are more comprehensive than those used in English, or vice versa, the more 
enlarged sense will be taken, as thus full effect will be given to both 
clauses. 2 N. S. 582. 
    

CODE, JUSTINIAN, civil law. A collection of the constitutions of the 
emperors, from Adrian to Justinian; the greater part of those from Adrian to 
Constantine are mere rescripts; those from Constantine to Justinian are 
edicts or laws, properly speaking. 
     2. The code is divided into twelve books, which are subdivided into 
titles, in which the constitutions are collected under proper heads. They 
are placed in chronological order, but often disjointed. At the head of each 
constitution is placed the name of the emperor who is the author, and that 
of the person to whom it is addressed. The date is at the end. Several of 
these constitutions, which were formerly in the code were lost, it is 
supposed by the neglect of "copyists. Some of them have been restored by 
modern authors, among whom may be mentioned Charondas, Cugas, and Contius, 
who translated them from Greek, versions. 
    

CODE, NAPOLEON. The Code Civil of France, enacted into law during the reign  
of Napoleon, bore his name until the restoration of the Bourbons when it was 
deprived of that name, and it is now cited Code Civil. 
    

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      Procrustean law, TelAutography, Teletype, Teletype network,
      Teletyping, Ten Commandments, Zeitgeist, argot, axiology, babble,
      behavioral norm, body of law, business ethics, canon, cant,
      capitulary, census, cipher, closed-circuit telegraphy,
      code of ethics, code of laws, code of morals, coded message,
      codification, commandment, convention, conventions, corpus juris,
      criterion, cryptoanalysis, cryptoanalytics, cryptogram,
      cryptograph, cryptographer, cryptography, customs, cypher,
      decalogue, dictum, digest, digest of law, double Dutch,
      duplex telegraphy, electricity, encipher, encode, encrypt, equity,
      ethic, ethical system, ethics, ethos, facsimile telegraph, form,
      formality, formula, formulary, garble, general principle,
      gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, golden rule,
      guideline, guiding principle, imperative, index, interrupter,
      inventory, invisible ink, jargon, jumble, jurisprudence, key, law,
      law of nature, laws, legal ethics, maxim, medical ethics, mitzvah,
      moral, moral climate, moral code, moral principles, morals,
      multiplex telegraphy, new morality, news ticker, noise, norm,
      norma, normative system, order of nature, ordinance, organization,
      orthodoxy, pandect, penal code, practices, prescribed form,
      prescription, principium, principle, principles,
      professional ethics, protocol, quadruplex telegraphy,
      railroad telegraphy, receiver, regulation, regulations, rubric,
      rule, scramble, secret language, secret writing, sender, set form,
      settled principle, simplex telegraphy, single-current telegraphy,
      slang, social ethics, sounder, standard, standards, standing order,
      stock ticker, structure, submarine telegraphy, sympathetic ink,
      system, table, table of organization, telegraphics, telegraphy,
      teleprinter, teletypewriter, teletypewriting, telex, tenet, ticker,
      traditions, transmitter, typotelegraph, typotelegraphy,
      universal law, value system, wire service, working principle,
      working rule