coding

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 7.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The process of encoding or decoding.
2. noun An encoding.
3. noun The process of writing computer software code.

   I spent all night on the coding, but the program was ready by morning.

4. noun A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
5. noun An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
6. noun A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
7. noun Ellipsis of number coding.
8. verb present participle and gerund of code

Similar words

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Often followed by

of for and system is the scheme region in

Word family

code coded codes codings