1. The process or activity of writing computer programs
   "She learned coding at a summer bootcamp"
    
2. Act of writing in code or cipher
   "The spies used coding to transmit secret messages";
   - cryptography, secret writing, steganography
    
3. The assignment of codes or symbols to represent data or categories
   "The researchers used coding to classify their interview responses"
    
4. (genetics) the specification of amino acid sequences by DNA or RNA
   "The coding regions of the genome"

1. Attach a code to
   "Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later"
    
2. Convert ordinary language into code
   "They coded the message before transmitting it"; "They wrote in code the message before transmitting it";
   - encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code
    
3. Create code, write a computer program
   "She writes code faster than anybody else";
   - write

Derived forms: codings

Type of: create by mental act, create mentally, encode, label, mark, tag, writing

Encyclopedia: Coding