undercodes

Noun

undercode (plural undercodes)

1. A subtext; ideas or information that are assumed or implied but not explicitly coded.
   • The anthropologist will tend to react more in terms of denotative overcoding, while the mass audience may respond more to connotative undercodes in terms of the ideological perspectives.1986, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Myth, Race and Power: South Africans Imaged on Film and TV, page 17
2. A secret message included in another message or stream of data.
   • Cannon was up there in orbit, talking to her ship in a dead language that existed mostly in undercode running on ancient infrastructure and its more modern copies.2009, Jay Lake, To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves
3. (research methods) A code (which represents a datum) that is grouped with other codes into a final encoding.
   • Here you can see that on the undercodes the relevant items of labour and material have been combined together and conversion factors can be inserted to convert the unit of measurement to the different units required for billing.1968, Pierce T. Piggott, Lindsay N. Johnston, Foras Forbartha, Technical documentation for the building industry

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