encoding

About 4.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
2. noun A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
3. verb present participle and gerund of encode

Similar words

encryption codec coder coding code encrypt cryptography coded encrypted cryptographic

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