Dictionary

uncode en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + code.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove the code or coding from.
   • To uncode a data fragment, it is necessary to select it. 2022, Peter A. Stevens, Qualitative Data Analysis: Key Approaches:
2. (rare, transitive) To decode.
   • A literary piece of ASL called “Uncoding the Ethics” is a good example of an abundant use of analogic devices. 2013, H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking:
   • Stein's remarkable freedom ungenders our access to language, uncodes our relationships with words, and teaches us to pay attention. 2000, Megan Simpson, Poetic Epistemologies, page 47:
   • It receives the coded supervisory signals, uncodes them and sends them in the correct form to the appropriate indicating instruments or lights on the control panel. 1971, Interregional seminar on the development of the mineral resources of the continental shelf:

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