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Definition of Decoder

1. Noun. The kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text.

2. Noun. A machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language.

Definition of Decoder

1. Noun. A person who decodes secret messages ¹

2. Noun. A device that decodes a scrambled electronic signal e.g. of a satellite television signal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Decoder

1. one that decodes [n -S] - See also: decodes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decoder

decocks decoct decocted decocting decoction decoction mashing decoction process decoctions decoctive decocts

decocture decodability decodable decode decoded decoder (current term) decoders decodes decoding decodings

decohere decohered decoherence decoherent decoheres decohering decoit decoities decoits decoity

Literary usage of Decoder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. National Regulation of Inter-state Commerce by Charles Carroll Bonney (1882)
"With a pirated decoder, as opposed to an authorized decoder, the user is not billed for the de- scrambled programming.38 One way in which the system was ..."

2. Nasa Spinoff, 1996by James J. Haggerty by James J. Haggerty (1997)
"if I ft f ft " i ("i, ff, fA fis ft | Af| I™ MPEG Encoder and decoder are two members of a. family of products developed by Optivision, Inc., Paks Alto, ..."

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