Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Codification

Coˊdi-fi-ca′tion

(? or ?)

,

Noun.

[Cf. F.

codification

.]

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

Definition 2024

codification

codification

English

Noun

codification ‎(plural codifications)

The process of precisely formulating a statement, as a code of laws.
The taskforce spent months on the codification of their mandate, but when they were done all agreed they knew exactly what they were supposed to do.

Related terms

legal code

Translations

the process of precisely formulating a statement, as a code of laws

Chinese:
Mandarin: 法律成文化 ‎(fǎlǜ chéngwénhuà), 成文化 ‎(chéngwénhuà)
Czech: kodifikace f (law, linguistics)
Esperanto: kodigo
Estonian: koodimine
Finnish: kodifikaatio (fi)
French: codification (fr) f

German: Kodifikation (de) f
Greek: κωδικοποίηση (el) f ‎(kodikopoíisi)
Japanese: 成文化 ‎(せいぶんか, seibunka)
Romanian: codificare (ro) f
Russian: кодифика́ция (ru) f ‎(kodifikácija) (law, linguistics, programming)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ.di.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

Noun

codification f ‎(plural codifications)

codification