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.
cipherer
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a word derived from
cipher.
Example Sentences
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The end of Washington's school-days left him, if a good "cipherer," a bad speller, and a still worse grammarian, but, fortunately, the termination of instruction did not by any means end his education.
From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Paul Leicester Ford
One can be a great cipherer without a conception of mathematics.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
