scrambler
Americannoun
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a person or thing that scrambles.
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an electronic device that mixes and confuses telecommunications signals in order to make them unintelligible through certain circuits.
noun
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a plant that produces long weak shoots by which it grows over other plants
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an electronic device that renders speech unintelligible during transmission, normal speech being restored at the receiving system
Etymology
Origin of scrambler
Example Sentences
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In the early 1990s, Mr. Reagan once gave Mikhail S. Gorbachev a ride in his Jeep Scrambler with a license plate that read “Gipper” during a visit to the ranch.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022
The exhibition also features a Triumph Scrambler 1200XE motorbike used in the Matera scene.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2021
Though it was far from his biggest seller, the Ronco Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler may have been his magnum opus, a virtuoso deployment of cheap materials to meet a nonexistent need.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021
Much like the company’s Scrambler bikes, the Scorpion has a fat-tire, low-rider feel that is sure to appeal to fans of the 1970s-era taco minibikes.
From The Verge • Sep. 24, 2019
He had started life under a hedge where the tangled weeds grew so thickly that even air was scarce; it looked for a time as if the little Scrambler must die.
From The Sun's Babies by Howes, Edith
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