Definitions
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- noun computing A
code that represents akeypress . - noun A code that serves to
unlock something, such as an electronic door or acar stereo (as anantitheft measure).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The winner will receive a "keycode" unlocking the software for all platforms.
OSNews 2009
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McNeil shouldered it open and, guns drawn, they swept in and down the narrow, carpeted hallway to the second door with the keycode.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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McNeil shouldered it open and, guns drawn, they swept in and down the narrow, carpeted hallway to the second door with the keycode.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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They followed her through a door marked employees only, down a narrow, carpeted hallway to another door with a keycode, through that door and down a flight of stairs to a bleak, gray, wide concrete corridor and up to a steel-reinforced door with a biometric lock.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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Reaching the bottom of the stairs, Erin tapped in her keycode to unlock the enormous steel doors there.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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They followed her through a door marked employees only, down a narrow, carpeted hallway to another door with a keycode, through that door and down a flight of stairs to a bleak, gray, wide concrete corridor and up to a steel-reinforced door with a biometric lock.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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I got a batch of mail sent to me from Scotland in a box, including a thumb-sized keycode device that generates a different code every sixty seconds that I need in order to be able to access one of my online bank accounts.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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She hurried up to the doors and punched in the keycode, automatically reciting the Bible verse in her head.
Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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She hurried up to the doors and punched in the keycode, automatically reciting the Bible verse in her head.
Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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I struck out for the nearest door, punched in the provided keycode (again, for security) and was greeted by 4 enormous tanks of Nitrogen.
truckeratlas Diary Entry truckeratlas 2004
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