Definition of cipher

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Cipher (n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W..

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Decipherer :: Decipherer (n.) One who deciphers.
Cipher :: Cipher (v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
Cipher :: Cipher (a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
Hieroglyphical :: Hieroglyphical (a.) Resembling hieroglyphics; not decipherable.
Cryptograph :: Cryptograph (n.) Cipher; something written in cipher.
Nonillion :: Nonillion (n.) According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a million octillions, or a unit with fifty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration..
Decipher :: Decipher (v. t.) To stamp; to detect; to discover.
Cipherhood :: Cipherhood (n.) Nothingness.
Decipher :: Decipher (v. t.) To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters..
Sphenography :: Sphenography (n.) The art of writing in cuneiform characters, or of deciphering inscriptions made in such characters..
Steganophthalmata :: Steganography (n.) The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography..
Uncipher :: Uncipher (v. t.) To decipher; as, to uncipher a letter..
Cipher :: Cipher (v. t.) To decipher.
Cipher :: Cipher (v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer..
Holocryptic :: Holocryptic (a.) Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.
Monogram :: Monogram (n.) A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works..
Nothing :: Nothing (n.) A cipher; naught.
Quintilllion :: Quintilllion (n.) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration..
Cipher :: Cipher (n.) One who, or that which, has no weight or influence..
Octillion :: Octillion (n.) According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration..
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