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coding en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • (US) audio
  • /kəʊdɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /koʊdɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From code + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (Philippines, not-comparable) Applied to vehicles when they are under number coding.
    • My car is coding today, so I cannot drive.

Deriveds

autocoding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · noncoding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · vibe coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · anticoding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · dual-coding theory (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · precoding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · live coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · Manchester coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · V-coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · double coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · number coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · coding theory (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · prefix coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · coding time (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · hard-coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · non-coding RNA (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · pseudocoding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · non-coding DNA (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · Huffman coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech) · predictive coding (Terms derived from all parts of speech)

coding en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • (US) audio
  • /kəʊdɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /koʊdɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From code + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The process of encoding or decoding.
  2. (countable, uncountable) An encoding.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The process of writing computer software code.
    • I spent decades as a knowledge worker in technology, precisely where society wanted me—in front of screens, building digital products, becoming the very kind of specialist I’m now critiquing. Like many of my generation, I learned some simple coding before I learned to fix a leaky faucet or [to] grow my own food. I still love technology and believe in its potential to automate mundane tasks, freeing us to pursue higher forms of creativity and connection—but this promise rings hollow if we sacrifice our fundamental capabilities in the process. 2024 November 29, Joshua Stylman, How Engineered Dependency Erases Our Autonomy:
    • I spent all night on the coding, but the program was ready by morning.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
  5. (countable, uncountable) An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
  6. (countable, uncountable) A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
  7. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, numeral, uncountable) Ellipsis of number coding.
    alt of coding

Forms

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codings Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

computer programming

Translations (22)

az kodlaşdırma (process of writing computer software code) · kmr kodnivîsîn (process of writing computer software code) · bg коди́ране (process of encoding or decoding) · ro codare-decodare (process of encoding or decoding) · kmr kodkirin (process of encoding or decoding) · pl kodowanie (process of encoding or decoding) · it codifica (process of encoding or decoding) · de Programmierung (process of encoding or decoding) · kmr kodkarî (process of encoding or decoding) · fi koodaus (process of writing computer software code) · it programmazione (process of writing computer software code) · ro codificare-decodificare (process of encoding or decoding) · pl kodowanie (type of morphism) · az kodlaşdırma (process of encoding or decoding) · pl programowanie (process of writing computer software code) · bg коди́ране (process of writing computer software code) · kmr kodkarî (process of writing computer software code) · bg програми́ране (process of writing computer software code) · pt codificação (process of encoding or decoding) · fr morphisme de codage (type of morphism) · pt programação (process of writing computer software code) · fi koodaus (process of encoding or decoding)

coding en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • (US) audio
  • /kəʊdɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /koʊdɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From code + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of code
    form of code