A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient), the activity of converting data or information into code, computing The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, eg in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text, verb_ Present participle of encode

The act or process of making a map, (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome, mathematics A function that maps every element of a given set to a unique element of another set; a correspondence