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A cryptograph used to manually code and decode messages—technology that was decades out-of-date by 2000.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
There are the cherished baths, where Dilly solved his cryptograph ic riddles and Eddie planned the next week's Punch.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he did, the word cryptograph, a few paragraphs below, flashed into his vision like a red traffic light.
From Time Magazine Archive
The manuscript volume and the smaller document are written in different hands," he said, "the cryptograph is of much later date than the book; there is an undoubted proof of the correctness of my surmise.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
One by one, as the characters of a cryptograph become explicit, the little signs left by the furnished room's procession of guests developed a significance.
From The Four Million by O. Henry
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