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Verb
/ˈsīfər/,
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ciphers, plural; cyphers, plural;
  1. Put (a message) into secret writing; encode

  2. Do arithmetic

Noun
  1. A secret or disguised way of writing; a code
    • - he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher
    • - the information may be given in cipher
  2. A thing written in such a code

  3. A key to such a code

  4. A zero; a figure 0

  5. A person or thing of no importance, esp. a person who does the bidding of others and seems to have no will of their own

  6. A monogram

  7. A continuous sounding of an organ pipe, caused by a mechanical defect

  1. a message written in a secret code
  2. code: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons"
  3. calculate: make a mathematical calculation or computation
  4. zero: a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
  5. nothing: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
  6. a person of no influence
  7. In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption -- a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is encipherment. ...
  8. In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) using an algorithm (called cipher) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. ...
  9. The second season of Alias premiered September 29, 2002 on ABC and concluded May 4, 2003 and was released on DVD in region 1 on December 2, 2003. Guest stars in season two include David Carradine, Ethan Hawke, Richard Lewis, Christian Slater, and Danny Trejo. ...
  10. Cipher is an American hardcore punk band that formed in 1996 in Long Beach, New York. Cipher's original line-up consisted of Moe Mitchell (vocals), Danny Bobis (drummer), Chris Fry (guitar) and Krys Maniecki (bass).Riverdavia . Allmusic. Retrieved April 13, 2008.
  11. Cipher (Alisa Tager) is a fictional mutant character, a superhero from Marvel Comics. She is a young African-American female who first appeared in Young X-Men #8 (Nov. 2008) and was created by Marc Guggenheim and Rafa Sandoval.
  12. Cipher (Jennifer Swann) is a character from the newuniversal imprint of Marvel Comics, and is one of the four initial superhumans created by the White Event in 2006 (the others being Justice, Nightmask, and Star Brand). ...
  13. A numeric character; 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 ...
  14. (CIPHERS) A nickname of the Transcendent Order faction, used because most folks don't know what they're talking about.
  15. (Ciphers) ADFGVX · Affine · Alberti · Atbash · Autokey · Bifid · Book · Caesar · Dvorak · Four-square · Great · Hill · Keyword · Nihilist · One-time pad · Permutation · Pigpen · Playfair · Polyalphabetic · Polybius · Rail Fence · Reihenschieber · Reservehandverfahren · ROT13 · Running key · ...
  16. To dream of reading cipher, indicates that you are interested in literary researches, and by constant study you will become well acquainted with the habits and lives of the ancients.
  17. is a way of producing a Document whose content may be understood by the intended recipient but should be unintelligible to all others.  This is usually achieved by substituting computer-generated random numbers or letters for the symbols making up the content of the document. ...
  18. Multics commands encode and decode implement a powerful file-encryption facility that was shipped with the system for years, starting in the early 1970s. The code, contriubted by a Multician with considerable expertise in cryptography, consists of a PL/I wrapper and an assembly language guts. ...
  19. A system for concealing plain text by transposing the letters or numbers or by substituting other letters, numbers, or symbols according to a key.
  20. A disguising transformation of a message without using chunking, such as a simple substitution cipher.
  21. 1. A method of transforming texts character by character in order to conceal their meaning. 2. Such transformed messages.
  22. Procedure that transforms data between plaintext and ciphertext; a crypto algorithm.
  23. A system of encrypting a message by which units (usually letters) of ‘plain text’ are arbitrarily transposed or substituted according to a pre-determined code (or cryptographic ‘key’) to produce ‘cipher text’. ...
  24. A mapping algorithm that is applied to a fixed number of characters at a time with an intent of concealing the contents of the message.
  25. An algorithm for encryption or decryption. A cipher replaces a piece of information (an element of plain text) with another object, with the intent to conceal meaning. Typically, the replacement rule is governed by a secret key.