meal, repast(noun) the food served and eaten at one time. meal(noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times. meal(noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse.
Encoders turn mechanical motion into an electrical signal that is used by the control system to monitor specific parameters of the application and make adjustments if necessary to maintain the machine operating as desired.
An automated encoder is also called a Store and Forward encoder. You Store the Dtmf code into the device when you program it, then Forward it to send the entire Dtmf code as one complete Dtmf string of numbers and characters.