coding

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English code

English -ing

English coding

From code +‎ -ing.

Noun

coding (countable and uncountable, plural codings)

1. The process of encoding or decoding.
2. An encoding.
3. The process of writing computer software code.

   Synonym: computer programming

   I spent all night on the coding, but the program was ready by morning.

   • 2024 November 29, Joshua Stylman, How Engineered Dependency Erases Our Autonomy‎^[1]:

     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.

4. (emergency medicine) A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
5. 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. (mathematics) A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
7. (Philippines) Ellipsis of number coding.

Derived terms

• anticoding
• autocoding
• coding theory
• coding time
• double coding
• dual-coding theory
• Huffman coding
• live coding
• Manchester coding
• noncoding
• non-coding DNA
• non-coding RNA
• number coding
• precoding
• predictive coding
• prefix coding
• pseudocoding

 

Translations

process of encoding or decoding

• Azerbaijani: kodlaşdırma
• Bulgarian: коди́ране (bg) n (kodírane)
• Finnish: koodaus
• German: Programmierung (de) f
• Italian: codifica (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kodkarî f, kodkirin (ku) f

• Polish: kodowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: codificação (pt) f
• Romanian: codare-decodare, codificare-decodificare

process of writing computer software code

• Azerbaijani: kodlaşdırma
• Bulgarian: коди́ране (bg) n (kodírane), програми́ране n (programírane)
• Finnish: koodaus
• Italian: programmazione (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kodkarî f, kodnivîsîn f

• Polish: programowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: programação (pt) f

type of morphism

• French: morphisme de codage

encoding — see encoding

Verb

coding

1. present participle and gerund of code

Adjective

coding (not comparable)

1. (Philippines) Applied to vehicles when they are under number coding.

   My car is coding today, so I cannot drive.

Derived terms

• hard-coding