Cipher

Noun

 * 1) A numeric character.
 * 2) A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
 * 3)  A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
 * 4) Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
 * 5) A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
 * 6) A design of interlacing initials: a decorative design consisting of a set of interlaced initials.
 * 7)  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
 * 9) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
 * 10) Someone or something of no importance.
 * 11)  Zero.

Verb

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

Adjectives for Cipher
valueless; inextricable; constant.

Related terms

 * ciphertext
 * cypherpunk
 * decipher
 * encipher
 * zero

Thesaurus
figure in, figure out, figurehead, garble, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, goose egg, graph, grapheme, hand, hollow man, iconology, ideogram, initials, insignificancy, integer, invisible ink, jackstraw, jargon, jumble, lay figure, letter, lexigraphic character, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, logogram, logotype, love knot, man of straw, mark, mark of signature, measure, mediocrity, monogram, multiply, nada, naught, nebbish, nichts, nihil, nil, nix, no such thing, nobody, nobody one knows, noise, nonentity, notation, nothing, nothing at all, nothing on earth, nothing whatever, nullity, number, numeral, numero, obscurity, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictographic character, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, puzzle out, reckon, resolve, runt, score, scramble, scrub, seal, secret language, secret writing, shrimp, sigil, sign, sign manual, signature, signet, slang, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, subscription, subtract, syllabic, symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, sympathetic ink, take account of, tally, thing of naught, token, totem, totem pole, trifle, type, unravel, unriddle, visa, vise, whiffet, whippersnapper, whole number, work out, writing, written character, zero, zilch, a nobody, a nothing, add, algebraize, allegory, alphabetic character, argot, aught, autograph, babble, binary digit, bit, break, calculate, cant, cast, character, charactery, christcross, clear up, code, coded message, common man, compute, conventional symbol, countermark, countersign, countersignature, counterstamp, cross, cryptoanalysis, cryptoanalytics, cryptogram, cryptograph, cryptographer, cryptography, decipher, device, digit, divide, dope out, double Dutch, dud, dummy, emblem, encipher, encode, endorsement, estimate, extract roots, figure,

Etymology
14th century. From cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from   (sifr) ‘zero, empty’, from  (safara) ‘to be empty’. Compare zero.

Alternative forms

 * cypher, less common than cipher but still in use in English. see The Ultra Secret by Winterbotham, the cypherpunk movement, and consider the Royal Navy's series of Cyphers (Nr 1, Nr 2, Nr3, ...) before and into WWII.

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: xifra
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 * Bulgarian: шифриране
 * Catalan: xifra
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek: κρυπτογράφηση


 * Hungarian: titkosírás
 * Polish:
 * Russian: шифр
 * Spanish: cifra
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: xifra
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
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 * Icelandic: dulritunaraðferð
 * Polish:
 * Russian: шифр
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: xifra
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek: κρυπτογράφημα


 * Icelandic: dulritaður texti, dulrit
 * Russian: шифровка
 * Swedish: