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DECODING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text

Example:

a secret key or password is required for decryption

Synonyms:

decipherment; decoding; decryption

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("decoding" is a kind of...):

coding; cryptography; secret writing; steganography (act of writing in code or cipher)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "decoding"):

decompression (restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display)

Derivation:

decode (convert code into ordinary language)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb decode

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