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s | decode |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb decode is

.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

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    decode

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cryptography) A product of decoding
  • * 2004 , David Cesarani, Holocaust: Responses to the Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews , page 148
    • If and when the remaining Allied intercepts and decodes are opened up, we may expect to learn a great deal more about the later stages of the Holocaust.
  • * 2005 , Richard Breitman, U.S. Intelligence And The Nazis , page 31
    • The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks.
  • * 2006 , Ian Pfennigwerth, A Man of Intelligence , page 223
    • Decodes stating that Hollandia airfields were becoming overcrowded with IJA aircraft waiting to stage forward to Wewak led to pre-emptive strikes by Allied air forces and the destruction of more than 300 Japanese aircraft on the ground.
  • * 2011 , Hervie Haufler, Codebreakers' Victory , page 192
    • He was sure that references to AK in the intercepts stood for Midway, but none of the decodes made the identification certain.
  • (computing) Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols
  • * 1999 Laura Wonnacott, "Sniffer Pro sees some switches", Info World , page 37
    • This version includes more than 400 decodes' that cover everything from legacy '''decodes''' to popular '''decodes''' and new or updated ' decodes for such protocols as voice over IP H.323, Server Message Block, Border Gateway Protocol Version 4, and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
    • The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.
  • To figure out something difficult to interpret.
    • I finally managed to decode the nearly illegible doctor's prescription.

    Synonyms

    * decipher

    Antonyms

    * encode

    Derived terms

    * decoder * codec