recodev.
/ˌriːˈkəʊd/, U.S. /ˌriˈkoʊd/ 1. transitive. To assign a different code to; to put into or represent by a different code. Also in extended use. Occasionally also intransitive.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > types of learning > [verb (transitive)] > rearrange information
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > express in code [verb (transitive)] > convert into code > second code
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1923 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 86 160 Each book before being lodged was recoded, if necessary, in accordance with the industry of the last employer.
1939 Economica 6 122 The blank schedules have been distributed under code numbers to the collaborating stores..and re-coded by the Statistical Department of the Bank of England.
1950 Public Opinion Q. 14 386/2 It is then the practice to look up the source information, recode, and correct the punch cards.
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) viii. 90 The human ear can be compared to a radio receiver that is able to decode electro~magnetic waves and recode them as sound.
1991 Artforum Feb. 112/2 Given this collaborative bias, it was perhaps inevitable that Constructivism was suppressed or recoded in the West.
2005 S. B. Gerber & K. V. Finn Using SPSS for Windows (ed. 2) i. 15 For each value (or range of values) you want to recode, you must indicate the old value and the new value, and click on Add.
2. transitive. Psychology. To reorganize (information) by a mental process; to reprocess mentally or neurally.
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1951 G. A. Miller Lang. & Communication xi. 234 When symbols are not independent, when some sequences are more probable than others, it is possible to recode the information into a form that uses fewer symbols.
1970 Child Devel. 41 854 The evidence is that the individual words are recoded into units larger than the phrase.
1977 J. M. Scandura Probl. Solving vii. 309 Extraneous processes may reduce memory load..where two digits are recoded..as one unit.
1989 C. R. Legg Issues in Psychobiol. (BNC) 76 The job of the visual system is to recode the retinal image in terms of a representation of the outside world.
2004 M. Snowling in M. Turner & J. Rack Study of Dyslexia iv. 79 When it was helpful to recode visual stimuli verbally, they had problems.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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