cipher
A numeric character.
Other meanings
Any text character.
A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
“a painter's cipher”
Related words
- cipherdom
- cipherhood
- cipherlike
- ciphony
- subcipher
- telecipher
- uncipher
- bifid cipher
- ciphertext
- cypherpunk
- decipher
- encipher
Word history
From Arabic "صِفْر" (zero, empty).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cipher” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.