unpacker
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who, or that which, unpacks.
noun
A software program that decompresses code or data.
Example Sentences
- "One great advantage of professional unpacking is that the unpackers take away all the wrapping and cartons […]"
- "All packed malware consists of the unpacker code and packed data, which typically look like random data. The benefit of packed malware, from a malicious author's point of view, is that it cannot be analyzed until it is properly unpacked."
Etymology
From unpack + -er.