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

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
codificationcomputer code
alternatephrasing
Code
plural
codes
possessive
code's
pluralpossessive
codes'