nonce
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Is nonce a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (lexicography) A nonce word.Examples: "I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors."
2. (cryptography) A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.Examples: "The protocol opens with A communicating in clear to AS his own claimed identity and the identity of the desired correspondent, B, together with A's nonce identifier for this transaction, I_(A1). ("Nonce" means "used only once.")"; "The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce."; "Both CCM and GCM require a unique nonce (N used once) value to maintain their privacy and authenticity goals."
noun (English)
1. (British, Ireland, derogatory) A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children.Examples: "1989 "assorted nonces, ponces and murderers, 'the worst men in the world' … on the nonce wing, where the child-killers, molesters and various perverts have to be protected from the other prisoners." (New Statesman, New Society, Volume 2, Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited)"BritishIrelandderogatory
2. (by extension) A pedophile.Examples: "‘He's a nonce[. A] nonsense merchant, a paedophile[,’ Terry explained.]"broadly
3. (British, Ireland, prison slang, derogatory) A police informer, one who betrays a criminal enterpriseSynonyms: snitchBritishIrelandderogatoryslang
4. (British, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A stupid or worthless person.Examples: "Shut it, ya nonce!"BritishIrelandderogatoryslang
Definition source: Wiktionary