Definition of "unpicking" []

• Present participle of unpick. (verb)
• The act or process by which something is unpicked or disentangled. (noun)

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• "The complex waveforms of the signal delivered no meaning, and even the painstaking work which had been done in unpicking the signal – stripping out individual sounds – gave no indication of how they had been produced, or why."
• "She delights in unpicking and unpacking language, although she passes over educational jargon such as "Sats" and "pupil referral unit" with contempt."
• "Those are due to my unpicking – the disaster itself happened at a point in the edging, and I picked back to the trough, and decided I had better stop before things got worse."