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encoding

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encoding (plural encodings )

  1. (computing ) 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.
    Coordinate term: codification
  2. A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
    Antonym: decoding

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character encoding (computing)

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encoding

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

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