FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

n 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.

n Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.

n A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

n (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts word|words or phrase|phrases into codeword|codewords.

n (programming|uncountable) A programming language (or other computer language), a program, a routine written in it, or, more generally, the input of a translator, an interpretator or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.

n (uncountable) A computer program, or more generally, any defined computing process.

v (computing) To write software programs.

v To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.

v (cryptography) To encode.

v (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.

v (genetics|intransitive) To encode a protein.