encode meaning

• Verb: encode  en'kowd
  1. Convert information into code
     "encode pictures digitally"

  Derived forms: encoded, encoding, encodes

  See also: encoding

  Type of: convert

  Antonym: decode

  Encyclopedia: Encode

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  [Electronics]
  1. To convert signals or data into a desired (usually digital) form. Also called CODE.
  2. To equip a transmitter with a tone-producing device (encoder).
  3. To develop and apply an encoding system to a group of transceivers or transmitters of a communications network.
  
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  [Medicine]
  vt en·cod·ed; en·cod·ing : to specify the genetic code for ‹each nucleotide triplet or codon on the mRNA chain encodes a specific amino acid —J. E. Darnell, Jr.›
  
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  [Computer]
  1. <algorithm, hardware> To convert data or some physical quantity into a given format. E.g. uuencode.
  
  See also encoder.
  
  2. <cryptography> To encrypt, to perform encryption.

Examples

1. your identification number is encoded on card.
2. book and borrower numbers are encoded on to bar-coded labels.
3. bacterial transposons carry genes encoding antibiotic resistance.
4. not everyone enjoys writing the software required for keyboard encoding.
5. graphs offer a very general structure for the encoding of pictorial data.