cipher
noun
a secret method of writing or recording data, such as by substituting or adding letters or numbers, using specially formed symbols, or the like; code.
ciphered
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past participleof cipher.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof cipher.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
ciphernouna secret method of writing or recording data, such as by substituting or adding letters or numbers, using specially formed symbols, or the like; code.
Example Sentences
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You can let a computer create various passwords and convert them into ciphered values using known hash functions.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2023
Also known as Mary Stuart, the then deposed queen of Scotland, who was a contender for the English throne, wrote these 57 ciphered letters between 1578 and 1584.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023
The ciphered letters were believed to be Italian.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023
But they were stumped by the even more complex ciphered messages being transmitted among Hitler and the generals Erwin Rommel, Wilhelm Keitel, Gerd von Rundstedt and Alfred Jodl.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2014
In all the intervals of his work—in which he never took delight, knowing well enough that he was born for something better than that, he read, wrote, and ciphered incessantly.
From Children and Their Books by James Hosmer Penniman
