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1896 N. Brit. Daily Mail 28 Aug. 5 The message was decoded.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 26 Jan. 2/1 If it seems desirable, I shall decode and publish at my own time.

1920 Glasgow 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.

1956 Spaceflight 1 27/2 Received at the ground station, this signal is decoded automatically and interpreted as a series of line graphs.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 18 May 7/1 The decoded cables.

1897 Times 30 June 9 The cipher telegrams in which they and Mr. Rhodes are concerned, and which have now been decoded.

1920 Glasgow Herald 20 Aug. 8 The decoder on his own showing was doubtful as to his interpretation.

1957 Electronic Engin. 29 574 The decoders were produced in the laboratory at a cost of about £50 each.

1962 Gloss. 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.

1964 F. 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.

1897 Daily News 15 May 4/6 Formal evidence as to the de-coding of the Harris-Rhodes telegrams was given.

1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. ii. iii. 263 Finally we landed up somewhere in the decoding department.

1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers (ed. 2) 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.