kód

Borrowed from English code, from French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex (“tree trunk, book”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoːt]
• Rhymes: -oːt

kód m inan

1. code

• “kód”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “kód”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “kód”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from English code, from French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex (“tree trunk, book”). ^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoːd]
• Hyphenation: kód
• Rhymes: -oːd

kód (plural kódok)

1. code; a set of rules for converting information into another form or representation:
   1. a symbol or short representation, often with little relation to the item it represents
   2. a cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords to conceal their meaning; or a message represented by such rules
   3. instructions for a computer, written in a programming language

• kód in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)

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• IPA^(key): [koːt]
• Rhymes: -oːt

kód m inan

1. (computing) code (a system of signs for conveying information)
2. (genetics) code (a collection of innate characteristics stored in chromosomes)

   Synonym: genetický kód

3. (linguistics) code

• “kód”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025