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uncode

uncode verb: to remove the code or coding from.

Verb

uncode (third-person singular simple present uncodes, present participle uncoding, simple past and past participle uncoded)

  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.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of uncode

third-person singular presentuncodes
present participleuncoding
past participleuncoded
pastuncoded

Origin of uncode

From un- + code.

Questions about uncode

What does uncode mean?
Uncode means to remove the code or coding from.
What part of speech is uncode?
Uncode is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncode?
The past tense of uncode is uncoded.

Words near uncode in the dictionary

  1. uncocoon
  2. uncocooned
  3. uncocooning
  4. uncocoons
  5. uncoddled
  6. uncode
  7. uncoded
  8. uncodedness
  9. uncodifiable
  10. uncodified
  11. uncodifies

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