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Definition cipher

Etymology

14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from Arabic ?????‎ (?ifr, “zero, empty”), from ??????‎ (?afara, “to be empty”). Doublet of zero. Sense 9 may be a different word.

Noun

cipher (plural ciphers)

1. A numeric character.
2. Any text character.
3. A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram.
4. A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
5. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
6. Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
7. A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
8. (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
9. A hip-hop jam session.
10. The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
11. Someone or something of no importance.
12. (dated) Zero.

Verb

cipher (third-person singular simple present ciphers, present participle ciphering, simple past and past participle ciphered)

1. (intransitive, regional, dated) To calculate.
2. (intransitive) To write in code or cipher.
3. (intransitive, music) Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
4. (obsolete) To decipher.

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