encode

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It sends data back by emitting tiny pulses of infrared light that encode electrical signals from the brain.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

Now, the Surge doesn’t think it would be that much effort to encode those promises into law, to be extra careful.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2026

Instead of coding for a viral protein like Covid, these mRNA vaccines encode fragments of tumor-specific proteins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

Qubits, meanwhile, are the basic units of information that encode data in a quantum machine, analogous to bits in traditional computers.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

A gene, in short, possessed not just information to encode a protein, but also information about when and where to make that protein.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee