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Recent Examples of encode The more detailed description is that the Quick Response code, that’s what QR stands for, developed in 1994 for the Japanese automotive industry, is a method of encoding information in both horizontal and vertical directions. Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 And a third rule encodes how a subset of polyps can construct branches that jut out laterally from the rest of the coral. Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025 Bob then performs the measurement, encoding his results onto the phase of the single photons that Alice has sent as part of the process. IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2025 More specifically, frequency-shift keying encodes information by periodically shifting the frequency of a carrier between several discrete frequencies. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for encode

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“Encode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encode. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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