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decode, v.|diːˈkəʊd|
[f. de- II + code n.1 3 b or code v. 1 b.]
trans. To decipher or translate (a coded message). Also absol. and transf. Hence deˈcoded ppl. a.; deˈcoder, one who or that which decodes (see also quots. 1962 and 1964); deˈcoding vbl. n.
1896N. Brit. Daily Mail 28 Aug. 5 The message was decoded. 1897Westm. Gaz. 26 Jan. 2/1 If it seems desirable, I shall decode and publish at my own time. Ibid. 18 May 7/1 The decoded cables. 1897Daily News 15 May 4/6 Formal evidence as to the de-coding of the Harris-Rhodes telegrams was given. 1897Times 30 June 9 The cipher telegrams in which they and Mr. Rhodes are concerned, and which have now been decoded. 1920Glasgow Herald 20 Aug. 8 The alleged decoded messages..contain ludicrous statements. As to whether it is due to incompetence in decoding,..we are not competent to judge. Ibid., The decoder on his own showing was doubtful as to his interpretation. 1937Koestler Spanish Testament ii. iii. 263 Finally we landed up somewhere in the decoding department. 1956Spaceflight I. 27/2 Received at the ground station, this signal is decoded automatically and interpreted as a series of line graphs. 1957Electronic Engin. XXIX. 574 The decoders were produced in the laboratory at a cost of about {pstlg}50 each. 1962Gloss. Autom. Data Processing (B.S.I.) 83 Decoder. 1. A device capable of decoding a group of signals and generating other signals which may initiate an operation. 2. In data-processing equipment. A device with a number of input and output lines in which a specified combination of input signals causes a particular output line to give a signal. 1964F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers (ed. 2) i. 2 Before it can operate, the computer must have numbers presented in the form which it can understand. This requires some kind of decoder or mechanism which will translate a number into a suitably recognisable electrical impulse. Ibid. vi. 99 Information on a card is normally decimal in character and has to be decoded into whatever binary code a computer employs. The decoding circuitry is..part of the computer design. |