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code

In law, the body of a country's civil or criminal law. The Code Napoléon in France 1804–10 was widely copied in European countries with civil law systems.

code

Expression of an algorithm in a programming language. The term is also used as a verb, to describe the act of programming.



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Vronsky's life was particularly happy in that he had a code of principles, which defined with unfailing certitude what he ought and what he ought not to do.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
While Prince Andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that gentleman- evidently not sharing Boris' conception of the advantages of the unwritten code of subordination- looked so fixedly at the presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to say to the adjutant that Boris felt uncomfortable.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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