Cryptology

Definitions

1. The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
   uncountable, usually
2. The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
   uncountable, usually
3. Secret or enigmatical language.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Meronyms: cryptography, cryptanalysis; encoding, decoding; encrypting, decrypting, decyphering”

“Near-synonyms: cryptanalysis, decoding, decrypting, decyphering”

“But the question⟳ of speech-play causes confusion to the slang researcher because this subject borders on family slang, private lingo, secret language, cryptologies, disguised language of children and grown-ups”

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