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Codification vs Codify - What's the difference?

codification | codify | Derived terms |

Codification is a derived term of codify.


As a noun codification

is the process of precisely formulating a statement, as a code of laws .

As a verb codify is

to reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

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.

    codify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
  • :
  • To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
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  • *:The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth?;. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “?near-aissance.”
  • Derived terms

    * codifiability * codification * codifier