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  • noun An instance of the translation of something into a form more suitable for subsequent processing.
  • verb Present participle of decode.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text

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Examples

  • In this module you will review the definitions of phonics, determine why it is important to teach phonics in the primary grades, separate phonics from the term decoding, and see that most research favors teaching phonics directly.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • As detailed on Boing Boing, the decoding is actually a relatively simple photoshop process, but the NYTimes interestingly calls it a "virtuoso act of electronic decoding"!

    Boing Boing 2007

  • As they progress through the grades, they may make gains in their word decoding, but many of them continue to lag behind their classmates in reading.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • As they progress through the grades, they may make gains in their word decoding, but many of them continue to lag behind their classmates in reading.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • Tim Roth is terrific as Cal Lightman, the detective who specialises in decoding the neuroses of others while being prone to a few of his own.

    Tonight's TV highlights Ali Catterall 2010

  • Symbolic language would be helpful in decoding the message on the disc, but this is separate from the detection of design.

    Critical Thinking Exercise 2010

  • Bzzz. Comparing Blu-Ray decoding to Hulu decoding is very misleading.

    Netbooks and HD Video: Hot or Not? AMD and NVIDIA Hope for Hot 2009

  • The semantic and syntactic information are critical for comprehension of passages of text, but they do not play an important role in decoding or identifying words.

    Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • Have a built-in MPEG2 decoder chip, which offloads the video decoding from the wimpy CPUs that these boards are usually saddled with.

    MythTV and Me 2009

  • Conroy’s achievement in decoding the vast hieroglyphic of our world that I didn’t consider writing about my own brat experience for decades.

    A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy 2010

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