Noun

(en noun)

A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

* (Francis Wharton) (1820-1899)

The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code ".

Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.

A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

# By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes .}}

(label) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words]] or phrases into [[codeword, codewords.

(label) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.

# By synecdoche: any piece of a program, of a document or something else written in a computer language.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A long object used to make a physical connection.

# A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.

# An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.

# An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.

# (label) A heavy rope or chain of at least 10 inches thick, as used to moor or anchor a ship.

(communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-15, volume=410, issue=8878, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Turn it off , passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}

# Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.

A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.

(label) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.

(label) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.

(label) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.