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A code name, codename, call sign or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage. They may also be used in industrial counter-espionage to protect secret projects and the like from business rivals, or to give names to projects whose marketing name has not yet been determined. Another reason for the use of names and phrases in the military is that they transmit with a lower level of cumulative errors over a walkie-talkie or radio link than actual names.
A codename, codename, call sign or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person...
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communication Code word, an element of a codebook designed so that the meaning of the code word is opaque without the code book Codename, a clandestine name or...
standard – Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. The ISO 3166 standard contains three parts: ISO 3166-1 – Codes for the...
the code in the postal address. Introduced on July 1, 1963, the basic format comprised five digits. In 1983, an extended code was introduced named ZIP+4 ;...
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or longer names) or they may simply be arbitrary. When an identifier follows an encoding system, it is often referred to as a code or id code. For instance...
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