- the act, process, or result of extracting meaning or usable information, as from a code, written or spoken symbols, or an electronic signal: The device that performs the decoding is called a digital to analog converter.Recent decodings of the hieroglyphs at Palenque refer to dates beyond the end of the Mayan calendar.
- relating to the process of extracting meaning or usable information, as from a code or an electronic signal:The decoding algorithm will have to discern a valid signal from the noise.
