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A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

Example: This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

Example: The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.

A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

To write software programs.

Example: I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.

To add codes to a dataset.

To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.

To encode.

Example: We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.