Code (disambiguation)

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another object or action, not necessarily of the same sort.

Code may also refer to:

Places

Computing

  • Code (metadata), data elements whose allowable values can be represented as enumerated lists
  • Code point, colloquially referred as a [character] code (in some encoding)
  • Code.org, a non-profit organization and eponymous website that encourages people, particularly students in U.S. schools, to learn computer science
  • Coding theory, branch of mathematics and computer science dealing with data transmission
  • Computer code, set of instructions forming a computer program which is executed by a computer.
  • Encoding (memory), store and recall information
  • Machine code, a sequence of instructions to a processor unit
  • Source code, a sequence of statements and/or declarations written in some human-readable (usually as a text) computer programming language
  • <code></code>, an HTML element

Science and technology

  • Code (coding theory), a subset of cardinality at least two of a Hamming space
  • Code (cryptography), device for hiding the meaning of a message
  • Code (semiotics), device to carry information in a verbal and/or nonverbal form
  • Code (set theory), set with a particular isomorphism to another set
  • Barcode, an optical, machine-readable representation of a numeric code that identifies the object to which it is attached
  • Baudot code, used in telegraphy
  • Diagnosis code, used to translate medical conditions into statistical codes, also used for the purpose of health care planning and reimbursement
  • Genetic code, a correspondence between the structures of messenger RNA and proteins
  • Hospital emergency codes, used in hospitals worldwide to alert staff to various emergencies
  • Morse code, a method which humans can transmit letters using only short and long pulses
  • Nomenclature codes, rulebooks of scientific naming convention
  • Serial code or serial number

Society and law

  • Code (law), body of law written and enforced by a sovereign state
    • Legal code (municipal), a body of law written by a regional or local governmental entity, such as a U.S. state, a Canadian province, a German Bundesland, or a municipality
  • Building code, set of rules that specify the minimum standards for constructed objects
  • Code name, a word or name used to refer to another name, word, project or person
  • Ethical code, adopted by a profession, by a governmental or quasi-governmental organ, or by a trade group or other organization

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Literature

Music

Television

Video games

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Sports and hobbies

  • Code, any one of the distinct games known as football
  • Code, a unit of scale in model railroading
  • Rugby codes, distinguishing between rugby league and rugby union
gollark: What if I post the letter "a" and all "a" is banned?
gollark: I'm hampered by my inability to make any significant technical or UX decision.
gollark: I'm still just extremely slowly adding code to minoteaur.
gollark: In most cases the implementation is much harder than the language choice.
gollark: Yes, ALL are to utilize SKI combinator calculus.

See also

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