How to Use encode in a Sentence
encode
verb- Credit cards are encoded with cardholder information.
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At the heart of the matter is the qubit, a quantum object that is used to encode information.
— Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2018 -
So the latest study used a new technique known as whole-exome sequencing to only target genes that encode proteins.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018 -
Cullen studies the neural mechanisms that encode motion.
— The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 24 Feb. 2018 -
In males, the protein encoded by Apollo is needed for the cell division that is the final step in sperm production.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2018 -
Most of the participants in the study had heard the performance some time in the past and that past performance encoded itself deep in their memory.
— Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 25 July 2024 -
By changing the phase of the light’s electromagnetic wave — shifting where the troughs and peaks of the wave fell — the researchers encoded the photon with a 0 or 1 at each station.
— Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2018 -
This will preserve the neural connections thought by some neuroscientists to encode a person’s mind, potentially for hundreds of years.
— Aristos Georgiou, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018 -
The thing that is so attractive about encoding information in photons is that photons can carry their information across distances very quickly.
— Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2018 -
After the Cannes premiere, Bakalova visited a psychic, a tradition that is deeply encoded in her heritage.
— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024 -
These snippets of genetic code prompt your immune system to replicate—for example—part of a virus encoded by that mRNA and then learn how to fight it off.
— Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2024 -
This gene encodes a protein crucial to pancreatic development, thus creating the genetic vacuum that the human pluripotent stem cells go on to fill.
— The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018 -
One user converts a random sequence of 1s and 0s into a quantum key encoded in those two polarization states and sends it streaming to another person.
— Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2018 -
When the team deleted the genes that encode key parts of the tailocin, the killing went away.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024 -
To encode that, the brain has to do something less direct.
— Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2019 -
In this view, we must have been somehow encoded in the first moments of the universe.
— Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2023 -
The filter won’t detect the same pattern in the data or encode the same feature map.
— Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2020 -
There’s a bit of pressure to encode that song with advice or wisdom, which was kind of a neat thing.
— Will Schube, GQ, 7 Apr. 2018 -
If only 1 to 2 percent of the RNA from our genome was encoding proteins, what was the rest for?
— Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024 -
The researchers showed that neurons encoding one memory remained more excitable for at least five hours after learning, creating a window in which a partially overlapping engram might form.
— Helen Shen, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2018 -
For now, users who encode a lot of video throughout their day are likely the best target for Xe Max.
— Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2020 -
These are treated with a group of drugs that block the protein the mutant EGFR gene encodes for, slowing the cancer’s growth.
— Monika Joshi, The Conversation, 1 May 2023 -
The debate over whether to encode the transmissions is playing out across the country.
— Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023 -
When input in the form of light flows into the chip, the output light encodes data from complex tasks.
— IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2024 -
Once those mistakes were encoded in the dance, the teacherless bees repeated the errors for the rest of their lives.
— Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023 -
If only 1 to 2 percent of this RNA was encoding proteins, what was the rest for?
— Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024 -
Aaron has spent the past 13 years optimizing the way Netflix encodes its movies and TV shows.
— Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 22 June 2024 -
Incentives are way too far in the future to give you that all-important shot of dopamine that encodes the new habit.
— Bj Fogg, Time, 30 Dec. 2019 -
As one species changes, the other may change in response, and these changes can even become encoded in their genes.
— Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 20 June 2024 -
At the same time, most of the genetic differences among the VC2 genes occur in the proteins that encode the legs, which latch on to these sugars.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
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