uncode

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ code.

Verb

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

1. (computing, transitive) To remove the code or coding from.
   • 2022, Peter A. Stevens, Qualitative Data Analysis: Key Approaches:

     To uncode a data fragment, it is necessary to select it.

2. (rare, transitive) To decode.
   • 1971, Interregional seminar on the development of the mineral resources of the continental shelf:

     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.

   • 2000, Megan Simpson, Poetic Epistemologies, page 47:

     Stein's remarkable freedom ungenders our access to language, uncodes our relationships with words, and teaches us to pay attention.

   • 2013, H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking:

     A literary piece of ASL called “Uncoding the Ethics” is a good example of an abundant use of analogic devices.