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encoding en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
  2. A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
encodings Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

decoding

Coordinates

codification

Deriveds

Manchester encoding · input encoding · character encoding · byte pair encoding · autoencoding · Church encoding · font encoding · percent-encoding · URL encoding · run-length encoding

Relateds

cp-1252 · Unicode · UTF-8 · UTF-16 · iso-8859-1 · UTF-7

Translations (25)

fr codage (character encoding (computing)) · hi एन्कोडिंग (character encoding (computing)) · kmr kodkarî (character encoding (computing)) · ja エンコーディング (character encoding (computing)) · cmn 編碼 /编码 (character encoding (computing)) · sv kodning (character encoding (computing)) · el κωδικοποίηση (character encoding (computing)) · kmr kodkirin (character encoding (computing)) · ru кодиро́вка (character encoding (computing)) · ru коди́рование (character encoding (computing)) · pt codificação (character encoding (computing)) · ko 인코딩 (character encoding (computing)) · he קִידוּד (character encoding (computing)) · pl kodowanie (character encoding (computing)) · ar تَرْمِيز (character encoding (computing)) · fi koodaus (character encoding (computing)) · nl codering (character encoding (computing)) · eo kodoprezento (character encoding (computing)) · vi biên mã (character encoding (computing)) · az kodlaşdırma (character encoding (computing)) · ja 文字コード (character encoding (computing)) · es codificación (character encoding (computing)) · de Kodierung (character encoding (computing)) · ar إِنْكُودِينْغ (character encoding (computing)) · ru набо́р си́мволов (character encoding (computing))

encoding en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of encode
    form of encode
    • We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath. 1988 March 1, “Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero”, in Neuron, →DOI, page 73: