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1919 in L. Tissot-Dupont Dict. Termes de Telegraphie-telephonie

1931 H. O. Yardley Amer. Black Chamber xiv. 187 If his cable, even after translation into Japanese and encoded in his code, still retains the proper name, I'm sure I can find it.

1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xxvi. 341 It's the kind of thing that young Alexis could easily learn to encode and decode.

1955 Gloss. Terms Autom. Digital Computers (B.S.I.) 10 Encode, to express information by means of a code. Colloquially, ‘to code’.

1959 B. C. Brookes in Quirk & Smith Teaching of English v. 155 The lecturer..encodes [his] information in appropriate speech signals.

1959 E. Pulgram Introd. Spectrogr. Speech i. 12 The membranes of telephones and microphones are obstacles of this type receptive to air waves. The energy that strikes them is translated, or encoded, into electric currents, which are in the receiver electronically decoded again into sound waves.

1953 Encounter Oct. 21/1 Communism itself [is] only a secondary encoding of the completely unmentioned Soviet Union.

1954 Electronic Engin. 26 84 The technique of encoding and programming, the ‘training of the robot’.

1956 J. Whatmough Lang. i. 13 A striking utterance is found, on inspection, to disturb commonplace encoding and decoding processes.