cryptology
The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and historiesThe science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
Meaning
3 senses(uncountable, usually)The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
Meronyms: cryptography, cryptanalysis; encoding, decoding; encrypting, decrypting, decyphering
(uncountable, usually)The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
Near-synonyms: cryptanalysis, decoding, decrypting, decyphering
Kryptologie
криптоло́гияkriptológija
(uncountable, usually)Secret or enigmatical language.
- the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
Translations
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Origin
From crypto- + -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “wordFrom crypto- + -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”); originally after Latin cryptologia, which is apparently first recorded in an English context.
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Forms
plural: cryptologies| Singular | cryptology |
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uncountable
Synonyms
6 synonyms- the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms:cryptanalysiscryptanalyticscryptography
Word family
12 related wordsLessons for this word
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