cipher

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noun

Plural noun:

cipherscypher

1.
A numeric character.
Đồng nghĩa: number, numeral, digit
2.
Any text character.
3.
A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
a painter's cipher
an engraver's cipher
Đồng nghĩa: device, monogram
4.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: code
5.
(cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
a public-key cipher
6.
Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.
7.
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.
8.
(music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
9.
(slang)(music, slang) A hip-hop jam session.
10.
(slang)The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
Đồng nghĩa: rotation
11.
Someone or something of no importance.
Đồng nghĩa: nobody, nonentity, nothing, absolute zero, also-ran, chopped liver, cipher, crumb, Joe Nobody, little guy, minnow, nebbish, nobody, no one, nothing, nothingburger, nonentity, picayune, pip-squeak, pleb, peon, prole, puny, quidam, rinky-dink, shrimp, wankstain, zero, zilch
12.
(dated)Zero.

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verb

V_es/s

ciphers

V_ing/Gerund

ciphering

V_ed/pp

cipheredcypher

1.
(dated, intransitive, regional)To calculate.
I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.
2.
(intransitive)To write in code or cipher.
3.
(intransitive)(intransitive, music) Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
4.
(obsolete)To decipher.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (chiffre), ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (zero, empty), from صَفَرَ (to be empty). chiffre zero. Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word. ar ص ف ر