Code (disambiguation)

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another object or action, not necessarily of the same sort.

Code may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Serial code or serial number
• Code (coding theory), a subset of cardinality at least two of a Hamming space
• Code (cryptography), device for hiding the meaning of a message
• Code (semiotics), device to carry information in a verbal and/or nonverbal form
• Code (set theory), set with a particular isomorphism to another set
• Barcode, an optical machine-readable representation of data relating to the object to which it is attached
• Baudot code was used in telegraphy
• Hospital emergency codes, used in hospitals worldwide to alert staff to various emergencies
• Morse code, a method which humans can transmit letters using only short and long pulses
• Nomenclature codes, rulebooks of scientific naming convention

Computing

• Code (metadata), data elements whose allowable values can be represented as enumerated lists
• Code point, colloquially referred as a [character] code (in some encoding)
• Coding theory, branch of mathematics and computer science dealing with data transmission
• Encoding (memory), store and recall information
• Machine code, a sequence of instructions to a processor unit
• Source code in computing, a sequence of statements and/or declarations written in some human-readable (usually as a text) computer programming language
• <code></code>, an HTML element

Society and law

• Code (law), body of law written and enforced by a sovereign state
  • Legal code (municipal), a body of law written by a regional or local governmental entity, such as a U.S. state, a Canadian province, a German Bundesland, or a municipality
• Code name, a word or name used to refer to another name, word, project or person
• Building code, set of rules that specify the minimum standards for constructed objects
• Ethical code, adopted by a profession, by a governmental or quasi-governmental organ, or by a trade group or other organization

Entertainment

Film

• The Code (2001 film), a 2001 Linux documentary
• Thick as Thieves (2009 film) or The Code, a 2009 heist film
• Motion Picture Production Code or Hays Code, the voluntary US films censorship guidelines from 1930 to 1968

Literature

• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, a 1999 book by Lawrence Lessig
  • Code: Version 2.0, a 2006 update to the 1999 book by Lawrence Lessig
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, a 1999 book by Charles Petzold
• Code (novel), a 2013 novel by Kathy Reichs

Music

• Code (album), a 1987 album by Cabaret Voltaire
• Code (audio standard), or ΧΟΔΕ, high-fidelity audio disc brand developed by T-Bone Burnett
• Code (band), English black metal band
• Codes (band), Irish indie electronic band
• The Code (band), ska punk band
• "Decode" (song), a 2008 song by Paramore
• U;Nee Code or Code, the 2003 debut album by Korean pop singer U;Nee

Performance

• Code of non-infringement or The Code, of clowns and other performers

Television

• Code - Secret Room, 2016 South Korean TV series
• "The Code" (Smart Guy), a 1997 episode of Smart Guy
• The Code (2007 TV series), Australian observational documentary series
• The Code (UK TV series), 2011 British mathematics documentary series
• The Code (2014 TV series), Australian political drama

Video games

• Code (video game), a puzzle video game
• Konami Code, a cheat code which appears in mainly Konami video games

Places

• Code, California, former settlement

Sports and hobbies

• Code, any one of the distinct games known as football
• Code, unit of scale in model railroading
• Rugby codes, distinguishing between rugby league and rugby union

See also

• CODE (disambiguation)
• Code Breakers (disambiguation)
• Codebook (disambiguation)
• Codec (disambiguation)
• Codex (disambiguation)
• Coding (disambiguation)
• Product code (disambiguation)
• Recode (disambiguation)