what does cipher mean?
CIPHER as NOUN
- Meaning
- a message written in a secret code
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Hypernyms(s) cipher is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- a secret method of writing
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Hypernyms(s) cipher is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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Hypernyms(s) cipher is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- a quantity of no importance
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- 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
Hypernyms(s) cipher is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
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Hypernyms(s) cipher is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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CIPHER as VERB
- Meaning
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
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Hypernyms(s) cipher is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- convert ordinary language into code
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- We should encode the message for security reasons
Hypernyms(s) cipher is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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