Meaning
12 senses(dated)A numeric character.
Ziffer
ци́фраcífra
A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.
Verschlüsselung
шифрšifr
A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
a public-key cipher
Verschlüsselungssystem
шифрšifr
Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.
Chiffre f Geheimschrift
шифро́вкаšifróvka
A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
(slang)A hip-hop jam session.
(slang)The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
(dated)Someone or something of no importance.
(dated)Zero.
(obsolete)Any text character.
(archaic)A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
a painter's cipher
an engraver's cipher
ве́нзельvénzelʹ
(obsolete)A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods.
The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros.
- a message written in a secret code
- a secret method of writing
- a person of no influence
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
Examples
5 sentencesMy best guess is it needs an asymmetric cipher.
Моє найкраще припущення - потрібен асиметричний шифр.
The information may be given in cipher.
Tom was writing cryptic notes in a cipher.
Tom created a new cipher.
ruТом составил новый шифр.
The malware was stealing private encryption keys and private encryption certificates used to cipher connections and locally stored data.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 4
By meaning 4
Origin
14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), u14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty”), from صَفَرَ (ṣafara, “to be empty”). Doublet of chiffre and zero. Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word.
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Forms
plural: ciphersSynonyms
47 synonyms- a message written in a secret code:cypher
- a secret method of writing:cyphercryptographsecret code
- a person of no influence:cyphernobodynonentity
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number:zero0noughtcypher
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential:nothingnilnixnadanullaughtcyphergoose egg