encoding
/ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.38 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
Example Sentences
- "We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
- British English: /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
byte pair encoding
character encoding
Church encoding
font encoding
input encoding
Manchester encoding
percent-encoding
run-length encoding