Undercode

Quick meaning: Undercode is a noun meaning (semiotics) A subtext; ideas or information that are assumed or implied but not explicitly coded.

Meaning

(semiotics) A subtext; ideas or information that are assumed or implied but not explicitly coded.

More Meanings

1. A secret message included in another message or stream of data.
2. (research methods) A code (which represents a datum) that is grouped with other codes into a final encoding.
3. (semiotics, transitive) To use or convey (a message) in a way that requires the recipient to construct part of the meaning.
4. (semiotics, transitive) To communicate (information) indirectly, by means of an undercode.
5. To encode a secret message that is masked by a surface message or stream of data.
6. To represent by a code that indicates a lower level of service than what was provided.
7. (semiotics, intransitive) To communicate using codes that do not convey the entire message, but which rely on the recipient's construction of meaning through connotation or subtexts.

Example Sentences

Cannon was up there in orbit, talking to her ship in a dead language that existed mostly in undercode running on ancient infrastructure and its more modern copies.

The anthropologist will tend to react more in terms of denotative overcoding, while the mass audience may respond more to connotative undercodes in terms of the ideological perspectives.

Just as the construction details 'held' on a standard drawing can be tested and become more certain of success as time passes, the undercodes held by an overcode can be confirmed in accuracy.

He shook his head within the visualizer, the major pipes still turgid with old data and images. Some of the old modular code had enough match points that it might be mistaken for undercode for the Admiral.

Word Forms

• undercodes
• undercoding
• undercoded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subcode, supercode, overcoding, upcode, countercode, body.

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