English noun: decoder | |||
1. | decoder (person) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | ||
Synonyms | decipherer | ||
Broader (hypernym) | intellect, intellectual | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist | ||
2. | decoder (artifact) a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language | ||
Broader (hypernym) | machine | ||