{
  "id": "code.information",
  "term": "code",
  "sense": "information",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "pattern of marks that is information when the marks follow a regular arrangement",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "information.knowledge",
      "arrangement.spatial",
      "marks.visual",
      "follows.sequential",
      "regular.frequency"
    ],
    "interaction": "The visual marks form a spatial arrangement where their sequential recurrence of a regular pattern becomes information.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recognizable structure over time",
      "temporal repeatability as signal",
      "structured information in sequence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The DNA sequence in the human genome encodes protein instructions using a four-letter nucleotide alphabet.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The ASCII standard represents English characters as seven-bit binary numbers in digital text transmission.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Morse code transmits telegraph messages by timing short and long electrical pulses across wires.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "computer.digital",
    "password.security"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "code",
    "coded",
    "codes",
    "coding"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'follows.sequential' and 'regular.frequency' to align components with the definition's reliance on ordered repetition in time."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-code.information"
}