cipher
/ˈsaɪfɚ/
Dictionary
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."
- A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
- Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
"The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out."
- A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
"The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros."
- A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
- A hip-hop jam session.
- The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
- Someone or something of no importance.
- Zero.
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.
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