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The act of codifying
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codification
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__NOTOC__ In linguistics , codification is the process of standardizing and developing a norm for a language. Codifying a language can vary from case to case and depends on the stage of standardization that already exists. It typically means to develop ...
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n. The process of precisely formulating a statement, as a ''code of laws''.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817 (Bentham), noun of action from codify .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Codification \Co`di*fi*ca"tion\ (? or ?), n. [Cf. F. codification.] The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of codifying; arranging is a systematic order a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) [syn: code ]
Usage examples of codification.
The brief period of silence that ensued, the two men seated in the front knew, was the mental codification of information by the enigmas individual occupying the rear of the sedan.
The Edicts of King Cynan contain the most recent statement of this principle, but there are earlier precedents, the clearest, perhaps, being found in the ninth-century codification of Maryn the First.
In essence it was meant to be a set of instructions to the courts of Canada to interpret federal laws in a way that would provide the maximum protection of individual rights - a worthwhile codification of legal ideals.
He imagined the district never visited, empty of human transaction, and how buildings such as these would seem to hold untouchable matter, enormous codifications of organic decay.
They rigidified the codification of sex and gender, labeling those who dared to deviate from these codes or even fantasize about something different perverts and hysterics.
He imagined the district never visited, empty of human transaction, and how buildings such as these would seem to hold untouchable matter, enormous codifications of organic decay.
The Edicts of King Cynan contain the most recent statement of this principle, but there are earlier precedents, the clearest, perhaps, being found in the ninth-century codification of Maryn the First.
The story was a codification of the people's knowledge of the land: It was a map story, very specific and complete.
And still these men had asked nothing about the binomial theorem or the method of fluxions as the basis of calculus, and they had laughed at his codification of the quantitative laws of universal dynamics.