cipher

Etymology
14th century. From, from , (🇨🇬), ultimately from , from. . Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word.

Noun

 * 1) A numeric character.
 * 2) Any text character.
 * 3) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
 * 4) A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
 * 5)  A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
 * 6) Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
 * 7) A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
 * 8)  A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
 * 9)  A hip-hop jam session.
 * 10)  The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
 * 11) Someone or something of no importance.
 * 12)  Zero.
 * 1)  A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
 * 2) Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
 * 3) A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
 * 4)  A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
 * 5)  A hip-hop jam session.
 * 6)  The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
 * 7) Someone or something of no importance.
 * 8)  Zero.
 * 1)  A hip-hop jam session.
 * 2)  The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
 * 3) Someone or something of no importance.
 * 4)  Zero.
 * 1) Someone or something of no importance.
 * 2)  Zero.
 * 1)  Zero.
 * 1)  Zero.
 * 1)  Zero.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ციფრი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Ottoman Turkish: علامت, نشان
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: шифриране
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: შიფრი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Kazakh: шифр
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: salain, salaaja, salakirjoitusjärjestelmä
 * Georgian: შიფრი
 * German: Verschlüsselungssystem
 * Icelandic: dulritunaraðferð
 * Kazakh: шифр
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: salakirjoitusviesti
 * Georgian: დაშიფრული ტექსტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: dulritaður texti, dulrit
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: kolmen numeron ryhmä
 * French:


 * Spanish: la glosa, gloss, gloss


 * Finnish:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To calculate.
 * 2) * 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
 * Can you cipher too—along with your reading and writing?
 * 1)  To write in code or cipher.
 * 2)  Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
 * 3)  To decipher.
 * 1)  To write in code or cipher.
 * 2)  Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
 * 3)  To decipher.