undercode verb 6noun 3forms 3 verb6 •To represent by a code that indicates a lower level of service than what was provided.It is estimated that medical groups undercode 50% to 60% of the time. — 2005 •To use fewer codes than are needed to fully describe something.Coding should be done with great exactness: it is better to "overcode" than to "undercode." — 1972 •To communicate using codes that do not convey the entire message, but which rely on the recipient's construction of meaning through connotation or subtexts.The immature committee — possibly a zero-history group — may express itself simply and emotionally, and thereby undercodes. — 1984 •To use or convey (a message) in a way that requires the recipient to construct part of the meaning.By withholding information, thereby abnegating the textual strategies of the storyteller by undercoding the text, Calvino augments the duties of the concerned reader. — 2006 •To communicate (information) indirectly, by means of an undercode.Thus theology is also a logocentric system that undercodes mythology. — 1996 •To encode a secret message that is masked by a surface message or stream of data.Just as she'd needed him to undercode a message into the financial routing she prayed someone with exceptional eskills would find. — 2013 noun3 •A subtext; ideas or information that are assumed or implied but not explicitly coded.The anthropologist will tend to react more in terms of denotative overcoding, while the mass audience may respond more to connotative undercodes in terms of the ideological perspectives. — 1986 •A secret message included in another message or stream of data.Cannon was up there in orbit, talking to her ship in a dead language that existed mostly in undercode running on ancient infrastructure and its more modern copies. — 2009 •A code (which represents a datum) that is grouped with other codes into a final encoding.Just as the construction details 'held' on a standard drawing can be tested and become more certain of success as time passes, the undercodes held by an overcode can be confirmed in accuracy. — 1970 formsundercoded · undercoding · undercodes