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Codification vs Coda - What's the difference?

codification | coda |

As nouns the difference between codification and coda

is that codification is the process of precisely formulating a statement, as a code of laws while coda is a person born hearing to deaf parents.

codification

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of precisely formulating a statement, as a code of laws .
  • The taskforce spent months on the codification of their mandate, but when they were done all agreed they knew exactly what they were supposed to do.

    coda

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
  • (linguistics) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
  • The word ''salts'' has three consonants — ''/l/'', ''/t/'', and ''/s/'' — in its coda''', whereas the word ''glee'' has no '''coda at all.
  • (geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
  • The conclusion of a statement.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
  • In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.
  • Synonyms

    * (end of a music piece) finale

    See also

    * chorus * onset * refrain * rime * vowel ----