| 单词 | cipher |
| 释义 | cipher —cipherable, adj. —cipherer, n. /suy"feuhr/, n. 1. zero. 2. any of the Arabic numerals or figures. 3. Arabic numerical notation collectively. 4. something of no value or importance. 5. a person of no influence; nonentity. 6. a secret method of writing, as by transposition or substitution of letters, specially formed symbols, or the like. Cf. cryptography. 7. writing done by such a method; a coded message. 8. the key to a secret method of writing. 9. a combination of letters, as the initials of a name, in one design; monogram. v.i. 10. to use figures or numerals arithmetically. 11. to write in or as in cipher. v.t. 12. to calculate numerically; figure. 13. to convert into cipher. Also, esp. Brit., cypher. [1350-1400; ME siphre < ML ciphra < Ar sifr empty, zero; trans. of Skt sunya empty] |
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