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n. - A system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy; the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions. Also: Any systematic collection or digest of laws.

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  • Hi Jon, first at all excuse my english: P Lemme say that your code is awesome.
  • Unfortunately, the code is a little messy and beyond the scope of this blog post.
  • Number one, the Montgomery County schools are in what they call a code blue shutdown.
  • In practice the code is almost never right – more likely that the PI has the wrong mental model.
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  • A "coda" is a summarizing part that is somehow separate from the whole, a "code" is a set of symbols, while a "coed" is either a female student or a term that indicates a school has both make and female students.
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