cipher

Significado (Inglés)

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. (slang) A hip-hop jam session.
10. (slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
11. Someone or something of no importance.
12. Zero.
13. Eggcorn of siphon.

Verb

1. To calculate.
2. To write in code or cipher.
3. Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
4. (obsolete) To decipher.

Conceptos

cifra

cifrar

cero

codificar

clave

calcular

cifrado

código

caracter

carácter

averigüar

computar

deducir

mensaje cifrado

criptografía

código secreto

nada

chifrar

encriptar

Con guión como

ci‧pher

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsaɪfə/

Etimología (Inglés)

14th 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 zero. Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word.