decoder
noun
de·cod·er
(ˌ)dē-ˈkō-dər 
: one that decodes
especially
: an electronic device that converts signals from one form to another (as for unscrambling a television transmission)
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All guest rooms have closed captioning on TVs or a decoder.
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Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
Krasa’s team simply trained their decoder to recognize a password patients had to imagine speaking in their heads to activate the prosthesis.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 Aug. 2025
While previous inner speech decoders were limited to only a handful of words, the new device allowed participants to draw from a dictionary of 125,000 words.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2025
Here’s a handy decoder for the code words used by flight attendants.
—Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
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Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
Krasa’s team simply trained their decoder to recognize a password patients had to imagine speaking in their heads to activate the prosthesis.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 Aug. 2025
While previous inner speech decoders were limited to only a handful of words, the new device allowed participants to draw from a dictionary of 125,000 words.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2025
Here’s a handy decoder for the code words used by flight attendants.
—Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for decoder
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“Decoder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decoder. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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