undercode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercodes
Etymology: From under- + code.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1986, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Myth, Race and Power: South Africans Imaged on Film and TV, page 17:
text: Kier Elam, in distinguishing these undercodes from generally understood dramatic codes, describes them as the "potent dramatic and theatrical conventions ruling the structure and understanding of plays and performances ..."
ref: 1995, W. F. H. Nicolaisen, Oral Tradition in the Middle Ages, page 125:
text: This study also seeks to discover the motivation behind the desire of potential warriors to emulate the persona of traditional, idealized heroic icons. It argues that both a 'male undercode' and a 'religious undercode' exist at the root of military culture, shunning all 'feminising' influences, and stimulating a strong drive to achieve a type of 'supermasculine' identity.
ref: 2002, Dissertation Abstracts International: The humanities and social sciences:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: A subtext; ideas or information that are assumed or implied but not explicitly coded.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2009, Jay Lake, To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves:
text: I couldn't afford not to answer a valid Civitas inquiry or communication, but after all the inquiries and research, an unknown undercode suggested yet another branch of Civitas or an attacker using a Civitas cover.
ref: 2010, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Elysium Commission, →ISBN, page 69:
text: He shook his head within the visualizer, the major pipes still turgid with old data and images. Some of the old modular code had enough match points that it might be mistaken for undercode for the Admiral.
ref: 2016, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Alliance of Equals, →ISBN:
glosses: A secret message included in another message or stream of data.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1968, Pierce T. Piggott, Lindsay N. Johnston, Foras Forbartha, Technical documentation for the building industry:
text: Just as the construction details 'held' on a standard drawing can be tested and become more certain of success as time passes, the undercodes held by an overcode can be confirmed in accuracy.
ref: 1970, The Architects' Journal - Volume 152, page 746:
text: A rational combination of these three undercodes allows to describe most disorders.
ref: 1984, K. Matti Saari, Uveitis update: proceedings of the First International Symposium on Uveitis held in Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland, →ISBN:
qualifier: research methods
glosses: A code (which represents a datum) that is grouped with other codes into a final encoding.