Coding organizes and gives cohesion to an area of information by describing the arrangement of information in a set. Coding can enmesh information with a medium while denoting and stabiliing the medium's organization. Coding can also copy information into a message, and transform the information received by an audience.

Coding is defined as:

The process of transforming information from one representation to another. Each way of representing information is called a code.(Arbib)

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A code describes an entire set of information by how its elements are interrelated and by how they behave at a particular instant, or for a discrete interval of time.

Code is:

A set of rules, a mapping or a transformation establishing correspondences between the elements in its domain and the elements in its range or between the characters of two different alphabets.

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Information coded in one set can represent information coded in another set by reproducing the first set element by element or by representing qualities and properties that are characteristic of the entire set of information.

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