cipher
IPA: sˈaɪfɝ
noun
- A numeric character.
- Any text character.
- A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
- A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
- Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
- A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
- (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
- (music, slang) A hip-hop jam session.
- (slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
- Someone or something of no importance.
- (dated) Zero.
- Eggcorn of siphon.
verb
- (intransitive, regional, dated) To calculate.
- (intransitive) To write in code or cipher.
- (intransitive, music) Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
- (obsolete) To decipher.
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Examples of "cipher" in Sentences
- This was the first publication of the cipher.
- Cryptography is about the creation of ciphers.
- Do I require to type it up as a homophonic cipher
- This operation provides the non linearity in the cipher.
- The method builds upon the security of the underlying cipher.
- The Alberti Cipher was one of the first polyalphabetic ciphers.
- Then, the cipher is reinitialized to encrypt the rest of the TCP stream.
- Considerable controversy surrounds the origins of the Cipher Manuscripts.
- Again, it's not the ciphered note, nor is it part of the visual mnemonics.
- The book cipher and straddling checkerboard are types of homophonic cipher.
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