encryptv.
/ᵻnˈkrɪpt/, /ɛnˈkrɪpt/, /ᵻŋˈkrɪpt/, /ɛŋˈkrɪpt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈkrɪpt/, /ɛnˈkrɪpt/ transitive. To convert (data, a message, etc.) into cipher or code, esp. in order to prevent unauthorized access; to conceal in something by this means.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > express in code [verb (transitive)] > convert into code
code1873
encipher1885
encode1919
encrypt1950
1950 in Webster Add.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 vi. 179 He might himself have discovered The Tristero, and encrypted that in the will.
1975 Aviation Week 11 Aug. 52/1 USAF would be able to convert reconnaissance pictures rapidly for computer enhancement and encrypt the data for transmission to remote field terminals.
1977 New Scientist 3 Feb. 277 New privacy legislation may make it mandatory..to encrypt confidential data about individuals.
1984 Sci. Amer. Apr. 72/2 The information the brain requires is encrypted in the intensity array provided by photoreceptors.
1988 I. Peterson Math. Tourist ii. 39 The sender of secret information must have a key for encrypting messages and the receiver a key for decrypting those messages.
Derivatives
enˈcrypted adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [adjective]
ciphered1611
characterical?a1617
cryptogrammic1860
encrypted1958
enciphered1959
1958 Time 18 Aug. 10/2 About 36 hours later Nautilus broke radio silence to send off a three-word encrypted signal to the Navy.
1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 88 The encrypted text is an encoded list of all dictionary entries in this document.
1977 New Yorker 29 Aug. 60/3 Using flaws in the operating system as entry points, they got access..to files containing the master list of encrypted passwords.
1988 D. Welsh Codes & Cryptogr. vii. 105 The encrypted string C = e (M, K) is called the cipher.
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