Cypher vs. Cipher
Cyphernoun
See Cipher.
Cyphernoun
a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
Cyphernoun
a quantity of no importance;
Cyphernoun
a person of no influence
Cyphernoun
a secret method of writing
Cyphernoun
a message written in a secret code
Cypherverb
convert ordinary language into code;
Cypherverb
make a mathematical calculation or computation
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.
