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coding system

n. a system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages

Usage examples of "coding system".

Who would think that two such diverse ships had the same coding system?

In addition to his transmitter he'd have to have a code transformer, which is the only thing that would make it possible for him to decode our position data and transform it into his own coding system.

The symbols are simply a coding system for triggering what a lifetime of living has written into our nervous systems.

Guided by a complex coding system of slashes, circles and dots which Gibreel remembered from his childhood among the fabled lunch-runners of Bombay (of which more later), the chair-men zoomed him from role to role, delivering him as punctually and unerringly as once his father had delivered lunch.

He noted with a certain amusement that the Unifiers were using a coding system derived from the Vitae's public standard.

It occurred to her, however, that this could be a handy coding system for species with a lot of skin surface, like the Solarians: a different color for each star.

The Anthill geneticists had apparently invented a new biochemical coding system to substitute for DNA.

Dates, cities, birthdays and other data are often part of a coding system.

I have instant access to all the removed information via my personal coding system.

The ribbons in particular used a fairly elaborate color-coding system.

A famous bit of schoolboy folklore had it that there was an intricate and subtle color-coding system at work even among the lamps visible to human eyes, though no one Han ever met could actually explain how it worked, or what a given color meant But it was a good story.

But certain rumors, that had been passed in a whisper to Harry by the abbot, said that it involved a coding system of fathomless complexity, and required receiving and transmitting a lot of optelectronic signals.

Apparently he was familiar enough with their data-coding system to keep track of what it meant.