cipher

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/ˈsaɪfɚ/ English

Definitions

noun

A numeric character.
Any text character.
A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram.“a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc.”
A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.“The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.”

verb

To calculate.“I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.”
To write in code or cipher.
Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
To decipher.

Related words

Synonyms

monogram code number numeral naught nothing nought oh zero nobody nonentity nullity cypher cryptograph encipher encrypt encode compute

Associated

cryptanalysis nessie decryption cryptology cryptography tunny enigma initialization encryption transposition aes

Rhymes

decipher cypher heifer lifer knifer kifer seifer buy fur die fur fifer

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