MEANING
To convert encoded digital information from one format or encoding into another.
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Words that belong together
- transcode a video
- transcode an audio stream
On the page
The archive transcoded the old recording into a readable format.
A damaged relay transcoded the audio incorrectly.
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Word forms
- Base
- transcode
- Past tense
- transcoded
- Past participle
- transcoded
- Present participle
- transcoding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- transcode
- Present continuous
- am/is/are transcoding
- Present perfect
- have/has transcoded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been transcoding
- Past
- transcoded
- Past continuous
- was/were transcoding
- Past perfect
- had transcoded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been transcoding
- Future
- will transcode
- Future continuous
- will be transcoding
- Future perfect
- will have transcoded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been transcoding
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: transcode; transcodes; transcoded; transcoded; transcoding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: transcodes.
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