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decoder

[ dee-koh-der ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who decodes messages or the like.
a device for decoding cryptograms, codes, or the like, as an electric or electronic apparatus that transforms arbitrary input signals into letters, words, etc.
Navigation. an electronic circuit designed to respond only to certain signals and to reject others.
Computers. a circuit designed to produce a single output when actuated by a certain combination of inputs.
Television. a box attached to a television set containing circuitry to unscramble encoded signals, as cable-television programs or closed captions, so that the signals can be displayed on the screen.

decoder

/ dē-kō′dər /

An electronic or software device that converts telecommunication signals from their transmitted form into a form interpretable to other devices or to human beings.

Origin of decoder¹

First recorded in 1915–20; decode + -er ¹

Scheiber inferred that Jarrett “is the closest we have to a human decoder ring” capable of unveiling “the real Barack Obama.”

Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet.

There Bud watched as he hooked up the leads from the computer to a transmitting-receiving decoder with a short-range antenna.

Tom walked over to the electronic decoder brain and began to tap out a message on the keyboard.

Tom felt a pang of worry as he dressed the next morning, and then relieved the man on duty at the decoder.

A bell signal from the electronic brain brought them rushing to the decoder.

When the message was typed by the decoder Ihjel hovered over it, reading each word as it appeared on the paper.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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