cipher
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Is cipher a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.Examples: "a public-key cipher"
2. A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:Examples: "The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros."
3. (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
4. (music, slang) A hip-hop jam session.Examples: "They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo"slang
5. (slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.Examples: "As the night seemed darker, cops is on a hunt / They interrupt your cipher, and crush your blunt"Synonyms: rotationslang
6. (dated) Zero.Examples: "O pardon: ſince a crooked Figure may / Atteſt in little place a Million, / And let vs, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke."; "Firſt, Find what Decimal of a Pound .625 will Repreſent, which is eaſily done if you prepone a Cypher, and half the Number is the Decimal of a Pound. The Number with a Cypher preponed is .0625, ½ is .03125."; "We saw earlier about this new symbol, the cipher, that can make numbers big."dated
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, regional, dated) To calculate.Examples: "I never learned much more than how to read and cipher."; "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."; "So I must baffle at the hint / And cipher at the sign, / And make much blunder, if at last / I take the clew divine."datedintransitiveregional
2. (intransitive) To write in code or cipher.intransitive
3. (intransitive, music) Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.intransitive
4. (obsolete) To decipher.Examples: "Yea the illiterate that know not how To cipher what is writ in learned bookes, VVill cote my lothſome treſpaſſe in my lookes."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary