CIPHER
\sˈa͡ɪfə], \sˈaɪfə], \s_ˈaɪ_f_ə]\
Definitions of CIPHER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a person of no influence
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a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
By Princeton University
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a person of no influence
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a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
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One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
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A character in general, as a figure or letter.
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A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.
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A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
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Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
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To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
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To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
By Oddity Software
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A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
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One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
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A character in general, as a figure or letter.
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A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.
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A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
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Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
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To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
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To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
By Noah Webster.
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The symbol O; zero; naught; hence, a person or thing without value; a secret manner of writing, or the key to it; a code.
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To work arithmetical examples with flgures; to write with secret characters.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The figure 0; anything of little value; interlaced initials; secret writing.
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To reckon in figures.
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To write in cipher.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In arith., the round 0 or nothing; any person or thing of little value; initials of a name intertwined; a secret manner of writing.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. The character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold; —a person of no worth or character; —a combination of letters as a monogram; —a private alphabet for the transmission of secrets; the key to it.
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An arithmetical character by which some number is noted, a figure; an arithmetical mark, which, standing for nothing itself, increases the value of the other figures; an intertexture of letters; a character in general; a secret or occult manner of writing, or the key to it.
By Thomas Sheridan
