noun A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
noun 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.
noun Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
noun A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation. (by synecdoche) A codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
noun (by synecdoche) A codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
noun A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
noun A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
noun Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.