Meaning of overcode | Babel Free
Definitions
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A code used to represent multiple (possibly unrelated) data items. countable
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An established code (signifier) that also acts as a new code, either representing additional (related) meanings, or dividing into various nuances of the original meaning. countable
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Inventory that can no longer be sold (such as items that are past their sell-by date). countable, uncountable
Examples
“Not only is it possible to construct an overcode collecting together groups of bill items but groups of overcodes can themselves be held collectively by a single higher overcode.”
“If an awarding institution cannot be identified as Scottish and the qualification is ONC/OND, HNC/HND, Clerical or Commercial, City and Guilds, Apprenticeship or a degree awarded by the C.N. A. A. boxes 1 and 2 are examined and if a Scottish school examination has been entered in either of the two boxes it is assumed that the ONC/OND, HNC/HND, Clerical or Commercial award etc. etc. is Scottish also, and the overcode x is entered.”
“In the open-ended tabulation below, the responses in capitals are overcodes of individual answers which have been grouped by topic; these overcode answers will total to more than the overall level of likes/dislikes because respondents may give multiple answers; similarly, answers within each overcode may total less than the overcode itself since only the main responses have been reproduced.”
“Instead of overlaying secondary images by alluding to an existing literary or oral tradition, structural overcodes overlay the secondary images by using technical vocabulary from a different frame of reference.”
“Opposed to codes that qualify, and overcodes that bring codes into a single resonance, axioms function by directly conjugating unqualified and decoded flows themselves.”
“Codes and overcodes refer to qualitative differences and similarities between entities; the circulation and distribution of social goods, as Eugene W.Holland points out, is still dependent onthe symbolic system of conduct, meaning, and belief.”
“Other Pepperidge Farm distributors in the San Francisco Bay Area have no overcode returns to speak of and product which does go out of code can be shipped to Pepperidge Farm thrift stores for full credit or sold on the thrift market for a profit, as Mesirow and Morris claim to have done ( See p. 11. above ).”
“Suppose, we are just interested in articles that can cause overcode.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.