Overcoding

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of established codes to take on new meanings, often thereby obscuring distinctions. countable, uncountable

    "The reason lies in the peculiar efficacy of the state in utilizing overcoding and rendering its principles and categories society-wide."

  2. 2
    An instance of overcoding. countable, uncountable

    "Identification of the semantic status of overcodings is a necessary preliminary to translation because it serves to identify those inferences which it will be necessary to supply in the shape of informal translation (in this case, in the shape of supplementation of the formal translation)."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of overcode form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"The reason lies in the peculiar efficacy of the state in utilizing overcoding and rendering its principles and categories society-wide."

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