Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "encoding" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Coordinate Terms

codification

Derived Terms

Church encoding Manchester encoding autoencoding byte pair encoding character encoding font encoding input encoding run-length encoding

Derived From

encode

Inflected/Variant Forms

encode

Context

computing

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

coding cryptography secret writing steganography

Type Of (IsA)

cryptography

Related Terms

UTF-16 UTF-7 UTF-8 Unicode cp-1252 iso-8859-1

Related Terms

byte cypher decoding font iso 8859 1 symbol unicode utf 8

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