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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various encoding schemes, such as ASCII or Unicode, in which letters and other characters are each assigned a unique number for storage and transmission on computers.
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- noun computing A well-defined correspondence between
characters and numbers used to represent them.
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