Meaning of cipher | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A numeric character
2. A numeric character.
3. Any text character
4. Any text character.
5. A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name
6. A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
7. A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
8. A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning
9. A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
10. A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext
11. Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
12. A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods
13. A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
14. A hip-hop jam session.
    slang
15. The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
    slang
16. Someone or something of no importance.
17. Zero.
    dated

Equivalents

Examples

“In ſucceeding times this vnderſtanding wiſedome began to be written in Ciphers, and Characters, and letters bearing the forme of beaſtes, birds, and other creatures; […]”

“a painter's cipher”

“an engraver's cipher”

“Just then, an attendant to whom the Queen had whispered returned; and taking a small case from her hand, Anne produced a bracelet somewhat similar to the very one with which Francesca had parted, excepting that it had her cipher, surrounded by a wreath of fleurs-de-lis. "Louis, will you offer this to Mademoiselle Carrara?"”

“The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.”

“He was very early engaged in great ſecrets: For his fatherr, apprehending of what fatal conſequence it would have been to the King’s affairs if his correſpondence had been diſcovered by unfaithful Secretaries, engaged him when very young to write all his letters to England in cypher; ſo that he was generally half the day writing in cypher, or decyphering, and was ſo diſcrect, as well as faithful, that nothing was ever diſcovered by him.”

“a public-key cipher”

“The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.”

“The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros.”

“They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo”

“As the night seemed darker, cops is on a hunt / They interrupt your cipher, and crush your blunt”

“There he was a mere cypher: here he was lord of the ascendant; the choice spirit, the dominant genius.”

“O pardon: ſince a crooked Figure may / Atteſt in little place a Million, / And let vs, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke.”

“Firſt, Find what Decimal of a Pound .625 will Repreſent, which is eaſily done if you prepone a Cypher, and half the Number is the Decimal of a Pound. The Number with a Cypher preponed is .0625, ½ is .03125.”

“We saw earlier about this new symbol, the cipher, that can make numbers big.”

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