Code
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To write software programs. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. To encode.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A very short abbreviation, often with little correlation to the item it represents 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. 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. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation. A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords. Source code. A computer program, or more generally, any defined computing process.
Example sentence: Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Codification
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The process of precisely formulating a statement, as a code of laws.