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encoder

n. A device used to encode a signal either for cryptography or compression.

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Encoder

An encoder is a device, circuit, transducer, software program, algorithm or person that converts information from one format or code to another, for the purposes of standardization, speed or compressions.

Usage examples of "encoder".

Guides had to remind most of them to slide credit-card-sized Timecards through the encoder at the bottom of the ramp.

They constantly monitor cerebral activity, transmitting updates of their host personality to the encoders, that upload minds into the Dreamtime when their bodies cease to support them.

It even makes a neat debriefing tool, if you have the equipment to interrogate the brain encoders directly.

Nanotech encoders proliferated on every colony world, weaving themselves into the nervous systems of the entire population.

Through simple errors inherent in any complex unpracticed endeavor—especially when undertrained communications personnel were attempting to use necessarily complex encoders and decoders—battalion commanders found themselves with orders scattering them all over the map.

Through simple errors inherent in any complex unpracticed endeavor—especially when undertrained communications personnel were attempting to use necessarily complex encoders and decoders—battalion commanders found themselves with orders scattering them all over the map.

She gestured at the mare's nest of recorders, encoders and processors that littered the once bare room.

After his contact with his brothers, they'd sent the simple: Midnight tonight via the message encoders on the Tower's communication level.