0 to change something into a system for sending messages secretly, or to represent complicated information in a simple or short way: --
Grammatical information helps learners to encode sentences.
Some music CDs are encoded with information about the performers and their music.
Many satellite broadcasts are encoded so that they can only be received by people who have paid to see them.
1 to put information into a form in which it can be stored, and which can only be read using special technology or knowledge: --
I suggest that the dorsal system acquires implicit memories, encoded in gradually modifiable links between stimulus situations and the appropriate responses.
Nonetheless, it is clear that encoded in this gene are a large number of triple-repeat sequences.
By early adolescence, gists or principles governing social exchange are typically encoded in the social-cognitive repertoire of normal subjects.
In this sense attachment is a skill, one which is acquired in relation to a specific caregiver encoded into a teleological model of behavior.
The memory system is subject to the same kinds of biases at the levels of encoding and retrieving information.
760 events are not only encoded and stored quite well, but also are retained and retrieved remarkably better than some other events.
The value of these features, and whether they are overtly encoded, varies cross-linguistically.
Thus, for example, a chunk that encodes a similar situation to the current one will receive some activation.
