access-levelencoding
nounUK /ˈæksɛs ˈlɛvəl ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
US /ˈæksɛs ˈlɛvəl ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
A way to turn a rule about who can see something into a form a computer can understand.
The program used access-level encoding to decide which files each user could open.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The process of converting access rights into a coded format for storage or transmission.
Access-level encoding kept the permission data compact and easy to compare.
3. A method of representing different clearance levels as numeric or symbolic codes.
The database stored each employee's clearance using access-level encoding.
4. The transformation of viewing or editing restrictions into machine-readable signals.
Before syncing, the app applied access-level encoding to every shared document.