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Cipher

ˈsʌɪfə

Cipher definitions
noun
cipher ciphers cypher cyphers
  1. a secret or disguised way of writing; a code

    "he wrote cryptic notes in a cipher"

    code secret writing
    • something written in a code

      "he came across ciphers written on parchment and concealed in a hollow altar pillar"

    • a key to a code
  2. a zero; a figure 0
    • a person of no importance, especially one who does the bidding of others and seems to have no will of their own

      "journalists are not mere interchangeable ciphers in the propaganda battle"

  3. a monogram

    "a pair of rock crystal goblets engraved with the cipher of Peter the Great"

verb
cipher ciphered ciphering ciphers cypher cyphered cyphering cyphers
  1. put (a message) into secret writing; encode

    "he left two, as yet uncracked, ciphered messages for posthumous decoding"

  2. do arithmetic