# Decoder

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**Decoder** may refer to:

## Technology

- [Audio decoder](/source/Audio_decoder) converts digital audio to analog form
- [Binary decoder](/source/Binary_decoder), digital circuits such as 1-of-N and seven-segment decoders
- [Decompress](/source/Codec) (compression decoder), converts compressed data (e.g., audio/video/images) to an uncompressed form
- [Instruction decoder](/source/Instruction_decoder), an electronic circuit that converts computer instructions into CPU control signals
- [Quadrature decoder](/source/Quadrature_decoder), converts signals from an incremental encoder into counter control signals
- [Video decoder](/source/Video_decoder), converts base-band analog video to digital form

## Music

- [Decoder (band)](/source/Decoder_(band)), a defunct post-hardcore band that was briefly named *Lead Hands*
- [Decoder (duo)](/source/Decoder_(duo)), a drum and bass duo
- [*Decoder* (album)](/source/Decoder_(album))

## Other uses

- [*Decoder* (film)](/source/Decoder_(film)), a 1984 West German film

## See also

- [Decoding methods](/source/Decoding_methods)
- [Code (disambiguation)](/source/Code_(disambiguation))
- [Recode (disambiguation)](/source/Recode_(disambiguation))

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