cipher

Plural: ciphers

Noun

• a message written in a secret code
• a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
• a quantity of no importance
• a person of no influence
• a secret method of writing
• A numeric character.
• Any text character.
• A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
• A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
• A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
• Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
• A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods
• A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
• A hip-hop jam session.
• The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
• Someone or something of no importance.
• Zero.
• Eggcorn of siphon.

Verb

Verb Forms: ciphered, ciphering, ciphers

• To calculate or perform arithmetic operations.
• convert ordinary language into code
• make a mathematical calculation or computation
• To calculate.
• To write in code or cipher.
• Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
• To decipher.

Examples

• a painter's cipher
• a public-key cipher
• an engraver's cipher
• He had to cipher the exact points before committing to the risky word play.
• I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.
• The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.
• The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.
• The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros.

Synonyms

0, aught, calculate, code, compute, cryptograph, cypher, encipher, encrypt, figure, goose egg, inscribe, nada, naught, nil, nix, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nought, null, reckon, secret code, work out, write in code, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, Joe Nobody, absolute zero, also-ran, chopped liver, cipher, crumb, device, digit, little guy, minnow, monogram, nebbish, no one, nothingburger, number, numeral, peon, picayune, pip-squeak, pleb, prole, puny, quidam, rinky-dink, rotation, shrimp, wankstain

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