cryptograph
Americannoun
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a system of secret writing; cipher.
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a device for translating clear text into cipher.
noun
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something written in code or cipher
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a code using secret symbols ( cryptograms )
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a device for translating text into cipher, or vice versa
Etymology
Origin of cryptograph
Example Sentences
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A cryptograph used to manually code and decode messages—technology that was decades out-of-date by 2000.
From Slate • May 9, 2018
As he did, the word cryptograph, a few paragraphs below, flashed into his vision like a red traffic light.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are the cherished baths, where Dilly solved his cryptograph ic riddles and Eddie planned the next week's Punch.
From Time Magazine Archive
He devised a cryptograph or machine for turning a message into cypher which could only be interpreted by putting the cypher into a corresponding machine adjusted to reproduce it.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by Munro, John
The cryptograph used throughout the war was perfected by him, and baffled all attempts of the enemy to translate it.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice
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