cypher
noun /ˈsaɪfə(r)/
/ˈsaɪfər/
(also cipher)
- [uncountable, countable] a secret way of writing, especially one in which a set of letters or symbols is used to represent others
- a message in cypher
- [countable] (formal, disapproving) a person or thing of no importance
- To her employers she was a mere cypher, with no human feelings at all.
- (British English) the first letters of somebody’s name combined in a design and used to mark things
- The glasses were engraved with the Queen's cypher.