code
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
System of communication in which arbitrary groups of letters, numbers, or symbols represent units of plain text of varying length.
polysemousNISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017
In Computing: a set of symbols used to communicate instructions for performing operations; a character set.
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary
Software program instructions.
Wordset Dictionary
a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
Wordset Dictionary
(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
Wordset Dictionary
a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
Classifications
Entity Type
Data75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- codificationcomputer code
- alternatephrasing
- Code
- plural
- codes
- possessive
- code's
- pluralpossessive
- codes'