encoding
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -əʊdɪŋ
- Hyphenation: en‧cod‧ing
Noun
encoding (plural encodings)
- (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.
- A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient).
Derived terms
- character encoding
- Church encoding
- font encoding
- input encoding
- run-length encoding
Translations
character encoding (computing)
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See also
- Unicode
- UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-7
- iso-8859-1, cp-1252
Verb
encoding
- present participle of encode
- 1988 March 1, “Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero”, in Neuron, 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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