decode Definition
de·code (dē kōd′, dē′-)
transitive verb -·cod′ed, -·cod′·ing
- to translate (a coded message) into ordinary language
- to convert (data) by removing or reversing previously applied electronic code
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decode Usage Examples
Object
- circuitry: It would contain the basic audio decoding circuitry to enable CDI format sound playback.
- genome: Intellectual Property We take the view that simply decoding a genome, human or otherwise, is an exercise in discovery rather than invention.
- byte: Create a Unicode object by decoding size bytes of the encoded string s.
- algorithm: However, this is not practical due to the complexity of the decoding algorithm.
- signal: Alarm indicators operate for 1 minute per decoded signal from fire alarm sounder.
- message: Step 3 is to decode the messages from the carriers.
Modifies a noun
genetics: Sir John had been on the board of directors of deCODE genetics, from 1997-2004.
Modifying Another Word
- automatically: You may not want UTF8 strings automatically decoding to unicode.
- easily: A problem pattern can be more efficiently discerned, more easily decoded, and more effectively transformed.
- once: In addition, his work is more idiosyncratic than MEZ's, whose content, once decoded, tends not to be especially esoteric.
- then: The signal is received and decoded then ingested into the reception computer.
- only: The anonymous marks are decoded only after a final mark has been agreed.
- just: The special set-top box is quite " stupid " ; it just decodes the MPEG streams.
Used with why or when
- when: This industry standard method ensures that information sent from your browser is scrambled whilst in transit and decoded when it arrives on our server.
- what: Yes, well I feel that it took me along time to decode what was going on.
- that: It was spawned from the ideas of iterative decoding that were being used for turbo codes at the time.
Present participle complement
use: In the latter case the signal is decoded using the state-of-the-art Philips decoder.
Preposition: of
- genome: Already we have seen the decoding of the human genome, promising a revolution in medical care.
- message: In this activity you will find out about some of the mathematics behind the coding and decoding of messages.
- speech: Support vector machines for segmental minimum Bayes risk decoding of continuous speech.
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