encode

verb

en·code in-ˈkōd

en-

encoded; encoding; encodes

Synonyms of encode next

transitive verb

: to convert (something, such as a body of information) from one system of communication into another

especially : to convert (a message) into code

: to convey symbolically

the capacity of poetry to encode ideology—

J. D. Niles

: to specify the genetic code for

encoder noun

Examples of encode in a Sentence

Credit cards are encoded with cardholder information. a technology that encodes images

Recent Examples on the Web Now a new study has shown that turtles taken from nuclear production and detonation sites encode the history of these weapons in their shell. —

Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023 Brenner is a skeptic of many of the claims around lifespan extension, arguing that animal lifespans have genetically encoded upper limits. —

Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023 Encryption involves encoding data in such a way that it can only be decoded by those with access. —

Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 July 2023 The data sets that have been used to train AI are known to be skewed and biased, encoding prejudices and errors. —

Khari Johnson, WIRED, 5 July 2023 There’s definitely a lot of research into how the brain responds to music and the different regions of the brain responsible for processing and encoding musical information. —

Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023 That’s because the hologram encodes all the three-dimensional information in a two-dimensional surface. —

Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023 Likewise, the prevalence of genes that encode for certain types of virulence, such as mechanisms to suppress a host’s immune response, increased significantly, while those linked to other harmful activities decreased. —

Michael Allen, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2023 This means phase-change memory can encode the results of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations—the most basic computation in the deep neural networks driving the current explosion in AI—using just a few resistors or capacitors in the memory. —

IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2023 See More

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