Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gold code

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English

Syllables
gold -code
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A launch code for nuclear weapons, provided to the President of the United States.

American usage

noun

A kind of binary sequence used in telecommunications and satellite navigation, having bounded small cross-correlations within a set, useful when multiple devices are broadcasting in the same frequency range.

Etymology

Named after Robert Gold.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Gold Codes (plural)

Synonyms

Gold sequence

Rhymes With

road code side road episode mode load rode node owed explode od bestowed

Questions

What does gold code mean?
A launch code for nuclear weapons, provided to the President of the United States.
Where does gold code come from?
Named after Robert Gold.

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