cypher

noun

  1. 1

    a message written in a secret code

  2. 2

    a secret method of writing

  3. 3

    a person of no influence

  4. 4

    a quantity of no importance

    it looked like nothing I had ever seen before

    reduced to nil all the work we had done

  5. 5

    a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

verb

  1. 1

    make a mathematical calculation or computation

  2. 2

    convert ordinary language into code

    We should encode the message for security reasons

Synonyms

Also useful for “cypher”:Unscrambler