K5Print Free printable worksheets for K–5

coding

  • noun
  • /koʊdɪŋ/

The process of encoding or decoding.

Other meanings

  1. The process of writing computer software code.

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

  2. A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.

Synonyms

  • cryptography
  • secret writing

Related words

  • anticoding
  • number coding
  • autocoding
  • noncoding
  • precoding
  • pseudocoding
  • coding theory
  • coding time
  • double coding
  • dual-coding theory
  • hard-coding
  • Huffman coding

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “coding” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.