Cipher vs. Zero

Ciphernoun

A numeric character.

Ciphernoun

Any text character.

Ciphernoun

A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.

Ciphernoun

A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.

Ciphernoun

(cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.

Ciphernoun

Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.

Ciphernoun

A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:

Ciphernoun

(music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.

Ciphernoun

A hip-hop jam session.

Ciphernoun

(slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.

Ciphernoun

Someone or something of no importance.

Ciphernoun

(dated) Zero.

Cipherverb

To calculate.

Cipherverb

(intransitive) To write in code or cipher.

Cipherverb

Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.

Cipherverb

(obsolete) To decipher.

Ciphernoun

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

Ciphernoun

One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.

Ciphernoun

A character in general, as a figure or letter.

Ciphernoun

A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.

Ciphernoun

A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.

Cipheradjective

Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.

Cipherverb

To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.

Cipherverb

To write in occult characters.

Cipherverb

To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.

Cipherverb

To decipher.

Cipherverb

To designate by characters.

Ciphernoun

a message written in a secret code

Ciphernoun

a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

Ciphernoun

a quantity of no importance;

Ciphernoun

a person of no influence

Ciphernoun

a secret method of writing

Cipherverb

convert ordinary language into code;

Cipherverb

make a mathematical calculation or computation

Cipher

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.

Zeronumeral

The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.

Zeronoun

The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.

Zeronoun

The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.

Zeronoun

Nothing, or none.

Zeronoun

The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.

Zeronoun

The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.

Zeronoun

(mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.

Zeronoun

The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.

Zeronoun

(slang) A person of little or no importance.

Zeronoun

(military) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.

Zeronoun

A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm.

Zeronoun

(finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).

Zeroadjective

(informal) no, not any

Zeroadjective

(meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.

Zeroadjective

(meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.

Zeroadjective

(linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the data.

Zeroverb

(transitive) To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero.

Zeroverb

To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.

Zeroverb

(transitive) To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.

Zeroverb

(transitive) To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.

Zeroverb

(intransitive) To disappear

Zeronoun

A cipher; nothing; naught.

Zeronoun

The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.

Zeronoun

Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero.

Zeronoun

a quantity of no importance;

Zeronoun

a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

Zeronoun

the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale

Zeroverb

adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

Zeroverb

adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun);

Zeroadjective

indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration;

Zeroadjective

indicating an initial point or origin

Zeroadjective

of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

Zeroadjective

having no measurable or otherwise determinable value;