| 释义 |
▪ I. ciphering, vbl. n.|ˈsaɪfərɪŋ|
[f. cipher v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb.
1. Computing with Arabic numbers; elementary arithmetic.
1611Cotgr Chifrer, to calculate, or examine, an accompt, by cyphering. 1806Hutton Course Math. I. 4 The art of Arithmetic was..often called Ciphering. 1845R. Hamilton Pop. Educ. iv. 69 The simpler elements of what is denominated ciphering. 1884tr. Lotze's Logic 204 Our system of ciphering enables us, without the need of distinctly forming even any collective idea of the numbers..to bring out a result.
2. Writing in cipher.
1536Stat. 28 Hen. VIII, c. 10 §1 If eny person..shall, by wrytyng, cifryng, printing, preaching or teaching..set forth..the auctorite..of the Bisshoppe of Rome. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. i. vii. (Arb.) 93 Letters wrytten with the Admiralles hande in strange and vnknowen sypheringes. 1606Holland Sueton. 77 [He] writeth darkly by way of ciphring, hee putteth .b. for .a. .c. for .b. and so forth. 1764T. H. Croker Dict. Arts s.v. Cipher, the art of ciphering is capable of great improvement.
3. Of the organ: see quot.
1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ xvi. (1878) 139 [Organ-building] ciphering [is the] sounding of a single note without any key being pressed down; this is sometimes called howling, or humming.
4. attrib.
1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. 26 You must seeke Records Arithmetique..and set them to the Cyphering schoole. 1810W. J. Hort (title), A Practical Cyphering Book. 1815W. Jacques (title), An Engraved Cyphering Book, for the use of Ladies' schools.
▪ II. ciphering, ppl. a.|ˈsaɪfərɪŋ|
[see -ing2.]
That ciphers; calculating (U.S.).
1825Bro. Jonathan I. 154 A..cool, keen, cyphering, thrifty, temper. |