(computing, historical) A standard code defining the patterns of holes on punch cards that represent various text characters.

plural of predictive coding

(law) A systematic collection of laws addressing dealings between private parties, such as business contracts and negligence lawsuits.

A term, number, or alphanumeric combination provided electronically to a vendor in order to redeem a marketing promotion.

A substitution cipher

(computing, derogatory) Software code that has had many editors with conflicting styles, making it nearly impossible to maintain.

(computing) The output of a compiler or assembler; it is not necessarily executable directly without linking to other modules

(video games) A line of text or series of commands which can be used to change a game's behavior, alter a character's looks and abilities, skip levels, or access other hidden features.

(telecommunications) Any of a family of linear error-correcting codes that generalize the Hamming(7,4)-code invented by Richard Hamming in 1950.

(computing, informal) source code / (computing, informal) object code