encoding

encoding

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English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊdɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: en‧cod‧ing

Noun

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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See also

  • Unicode
  • UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-7
  • iso-8859-1, cp-1252

Verb

encoding

  1. present participle and gerund of encode

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