aes
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of aes
< Latin: copper, bronze, money made from them, money in general; see ore
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The NSA decrypts 256bit aes encryption all the time, it takes a few days with massvely parallel clusters but, it can be done in a reasonable amount of time.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2016
And so these images of him would have their effect on the aes thetic of the happening in the '60s, as on avant-garde dance in the '70s.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Latin name for this metal was aes Brundusinum, or "brass of Brindisi."
From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
Further, there is always the difficulty in translation arising from the fact that the Latin aes was indiscriminately copper, brass, and bronze.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
The Romans used to pay the watermen their fare at their first stepping into the boat, which we never do till after landing: "Dum aes exigitur, dum mula ligatur, Tota abit hora."
From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Montaigne, Michel de
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
