Definition for
code
– To prepare (a message or despatch) for transmission by translating it into the cipher or arbitrarily chosen words of the code previously agreed upon.
noun – In Roman law, one of several systematic or classified collections of the statutory part of that law, made by various later emperors, as the Codex Hermogenianus, Codex Theodosianus, etc.; especially, a classified collection made by Justinian (see below).
noun – In modern jurisprudence: A systematic and complete body of statute law intended to supersede all other law within its scope.
noun – A body of law which is intended to be merely a restatement of the principles of the existing law in a systematic form.
noun – Hence A digest or compendium; an orderly arrangement or system; a body of rules or facts for the regulation or explication of any subject: as, the military code; the code of honor (see below).
noun – Specifically A system of signals with the rules which govern their use.
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