noun
Meaning 1
A person who decodes secret messages
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noun
A person who decodes secret messages
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noun
A device that decodes a scrambled electronic signal e.g. of a satellite television signal
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noun
a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language
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Broader terms: machine
noun
the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text
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Synonyms: decipherer
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Broader terms: intellectual, intellect
Narrower terms: cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English code English decode Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English decoder From decode + -er.
Across languages
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