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encode

[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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"The human ability to encode information in signs and symbols was developed over many thousands of years. Writing is only one specific form in a long series of sign systems."

From Science Daily Feb. 25, 2026

Now, the Surge doesn’t think it would be that much effort to encode those promises into law, to be extra careful.

From Slate Jan. 17, 2026

Instead of coding for a viral protein like Covid, these mRNA vaccines encode fragments of tumor-specific proteins.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 5, 2025

Qubits, meanwhile, are the basic units of information that encode data in a quantum machine, analogous to bits in traditional computers.

From Barron's Oct. 21, 2025

A quadruplet code would have 256 permutations—far more than needed to encode twenty amino acids.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most of the viral genome contains instructions for structural proteins, but it also encodes several specialized proteins required for replication.

From Science Daily May 13, 2026

Understanding how an animal brain encodes memories and the emotional responses they evoke could lead to better cognitive therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 27, 2025

Watson was 25 when he and English biophysicist Francis Crick figured out the double-helix structure of DNA that encodes the essential information for life.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

But when the researchers looked at Arhgap36’s genetic sequence in orange cats, they didn’t find any mutations in the DNA that encodes the Arhgap36 protein.

From Science Magazine Nov. 27, 2024

The fact that the genome also encodes genes to repair damage to the genome was discovered by several geneticists, including Evelyn Witkin and Steve Elledge.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Computers can only perform calculations using data and instructions that have been encoded into physical forms they can recognize and process.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Rather than isolating individual colors directly, the detectors collect encoded signals that contain hidden spectral information.

From Science Daily May 26, 2026

“Up to that point, the highest number of encoded qubits anyone has done any experiments with was two or three, and they jumped straight to 48,” Fitzsimons explained.

From Barron's May 20, 2026

Like traditional computers whose basic information is encoded by bits, quantum computers rely on quantum bits.

From Barron's Mar. 26, 2026

He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

The team also highlighted the advantages of time-bin encoding compared with many existing quantum dot based QKD systems, which can be highly sensitive to environmental disruptions.

From Science Daily May 9, 2026

Jargon, while efficiently encoding this knowledge, adds a safety buffer.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

Building on this work, the team created a 3D modulation encoding strategy.

From Science Daily Mar. 29, 2026

The pullover cost me four sets of wireless code—the full lot of encoding poems, passwords, and frequencies.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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