| 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 | ||