Upcode

Quick meaning: Upcode is a noun meaning (computing) The behavioral norms which influence how software (or "downcode") is produced.

Meaning

(computing) The behavioral norms which influence how software (or "downcode") is produced.

More Meanings

1. To give an improved code or rating to something.
2. (medicine, chiefly US) To change the diagnostic code of a patient's condition from the correct code to one for which a larger amount can be billed.

Example Sentences

Introduction of more wagons fitted with vacuum brakes and roller-bearing axleboxes has made it possible to up-code trains conveying steel and coal traffic.

Several factors appear to have fueled the PBD epidemic: […]; and diagnostic upcoding in the U.S. health system that rations treatment according to DSM diagnoses [ 14 ].

Upcode includes the mental codes that shape human thought and behavior from within and the cultural codes that operate on us, often invisibly, from without: personal morality, religious rituals, social norms, legal rules, corporate policies, professional ethics, website terms of service. Downcode is run by computers, upcode by humans.

Word Forms

• upcodes
• upcoding
• upcoded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include undercode, codebase, macrocode, supercode, outcode, subcode.

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