Definition of "encoding"

encoding

/ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/

noun
plural encodings
1. (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
2. A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient).
verb
1. present participle and gerund of encode
  Quotations
  We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath.
  1988 March 1, “Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero”, in Neuron‎, page 73