Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (semiotics) A subtext; ideas or information that are assumed or implied but not explicitly coded.
2. A secret message included in another message or stream of data.
3. (research methods) A code (which represents a datum) that is grouped with other codes into a final encoding.
4. (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.
5. (semiotics, transitive) To use or convey (a message) in a way that requires the recipient to construct part of the meaning.
6. (semiotics, transitive) To communicate (information) indirectly, by means of an undercode.
7. To encode a secret message that is masked by a surface message or stream of data.
8. To represent by a code that indicates a lower level of service than what was provided.

Example Sentences

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.

Kier Elam, in distinguishing these undercodes from generally understood dramatic codes, describes them as the "potent dramatic and theatrical conventions ruling the structure and understanding of plays and performances ..."

This study also seeks to discover the motivation behind the desire of potential warriors to emulate the persona of traditional, idealized heroic icons. It argues that both a 'male undercode' and a 'religious undercode' exist at the root of military culture, shunning all 'feminising' influences, and stimulating a strong drive to achieve a type of 'supermasculine' identity.

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.

I couldn't afford not to answer a valid Civitas inquiry or communication, but after all the inquiries and research, an unknown undercode suggested yet another branch of Civitas or an attacker using a Civitas cover.

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.

Here you can see that on the undercodes the relevant items of labour and material have been combined together and conversion factors can be inserted to convert the unit of measurement to the different units required for billing.

Word Forms

• undercodes
• undercoding
• undercoded

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Use undercode when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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