Definizione monolingua

cipher

cipher (third-person singular simple present ciphers, present participle ciphering, simple past and past participle ciphered)

1. (regional and/or dated) To calculate.

   I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. IX, Abbot Samson

     For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.

cipher (plural ciphers)

1. A numeric character.
2. 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.

3. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
4. Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.

   The message is clearly a cipher, but I cant figure it out.

5. 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.

6. A design of interlacing initials: a decorative design consisting of a set of interlaced initials.
7. (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
8. A hip-hop jam session [1]
9. The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
10. Someone or something of no importance.

    You are just a cipher to me.

11. (obsolete) Zero.

Definizione dizionario cipher

	crittografia
	The particular algorithm used to transform a readable message (called plaintext or cleartext) into an unreadable, scrambled, or hidden message (called ciphertext).

cifra

cifrare

cifrario

monogramma

zero

Altri significati:

(cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.

numeric character

cryptographic system using an algorithm

A hip-hop jam session [ ]

A numeric character.

A secret method of writing.

A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.

A design of interlacing initials: a decorative design consisting of a set of interlaced initials.

(regional and/or dated) To calculate.

Someone or something of no importance.

Convert ordinary language into code.

The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.

(music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.

A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:

method for concealing the meaning of text

(obsolete) Zero.

ciphertext

Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.