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code word

n.
1. A secret word or phrase used as a code name or password.
2. A euphemism: "The Democrats' 'populism' is a code word for bigger farm subsidies and protectionism" (New Republic).
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code′ word`


n.
a euphemistic or politically acceptable catchword or phrase used instead of a blunter or less acceptable term.
[1965–70]
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code word

1. A word that has been assigned a classification and a classified meaning to safeguard intentions and information regarding a classified plan or operation.
2. A cryptonym used to identify sensitive intelligence data.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
Translations

code word

nCodewort nt; (Comput also) → Passwort nt, → Kennwort nt
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"The IRA codewords were not publicised for obvious reasons."
The eight consecutive bits of QR code message constitute a codeword, each of which will be the coefficients of the message polynomial in Reed-Solomon code encoding, and the corresponding error correction codewords will be generated.
Two days after you published my letter about puzzle codewords mentioning D-Day landings and the death of Hugh Hefner, I open my Chronicle to my favourite puzzles section and what do I find?
These basis vectors are also known as codewords, and a collection of those codewords is referred to as a codebook.
And one can imagine the confusion that might have arisen if Frank Pike and Corporal Jones had been left to receive the real-life codewords devised for the Home Guard.
The vertices of C are called codewords. A code is called an identifying code if the sets
We can assume as in the proof of Theorem 4 that [a.sub.1], [a.sub.3] and z are codewords of [C.sub.x].
where [A.sub.i] denotes the number of codewords with Hamming weight i.
And we give another two improvements about the recognition algorithm in Sections 3 and 4: (1) because the authors of [6, 7] did not give a normative algorithm to automatically identify the parameter n for a computer program, we propose a formalized scheme to optimize the recognition of n; (2) the authors of [6, 7] did not consider the synchronization of codewords while the synchronization positions are usually unknown in a noncooperative communication context; we propose to modify the algorithm to identify the codeword synchronization.

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