Codification
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The process of precisely formulating a statement, as a code of laws.
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 representsA 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: Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.