CIPHER


Meaning of CIPHER in English

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic ṣifr empty, ~, zero Date: 14th century 1. zero 1a, one that has no weight, worth, or influence ; nonentity , 2. a method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning, a message in code, Arabic numeral , a combination of symbolic letters, II. verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: circa 1530 intransitive verb to use figures in a mathematical process, transitive verb en~ , to compute arithmetically

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