Usually means: Converts information into a specific format.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word encodes:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. encodes: Merriam-Webster
  2. encodes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. encodes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Encodes, encodes: Wordnik
  5. encodes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. encodes: Wiktionary
  7. encodes: Dictionary.com
  8. encodes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encodes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. encodes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. encodes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See encode as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ENCODE)

verb:  (transitive) To convert (plain text) into code.
verb:  (transitive, communication) To convert source information into another form.
verb:  (biology) To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material.
noun:  An encoding operation.
noun:  Abbreviation of Encyclopedia of DNA Elements; a catalogue of all the functional elements, encoded in the human genome.
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