coding

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/koʊdɪŋ/
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/koʊdɪŋ/ · /kəʊdɪŋ/

Definition of coding

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The process of encoding or decoding.
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noun

  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 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.

verb

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

adj

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

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Etymology

Etymology tree English code English -ing English coding From code + -ing.

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