Encoding

Full definition of encoding

Noun

1. (computing) 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 decoding by the recipient).

Derived terms

• font encoding
• input encoding

Verb

1. Present participle of encode
• 1988 , 1 March 1988 , , Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero , We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath.