encode

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He emphasizes that the human ability to encode information developed gradually over tens of thousands of years.

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

Instead of trying to measure the area inside a parabola as the Greeks did, early algebraists sought to find the solutions to equations that encode relationships between different numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife