encoding
nounUS /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/ · UK /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
2
A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
- Derived terms
- autoencoding, byte pair encoding, character encoding, Church encoding, font encoding, input encoding, Manchester encoding, percent-encoding, run-length encoding, URL encoding
- Related terms
- Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-7, iso-8859-1, cp-1252