Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The study of cryptanalysis or cryptography.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Secret or occult language; cryptography.
Wiktionary
- n. The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
- n. Secret or enigmatical language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Secret or enigmatical language.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kryptós, "hidden") + λόγος (logos, "word"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Intelligence historian David Kahn spent hours patiently instructing me in the finer points of World War II tactical intelligence, cryptology, and German spying.”
“The next two or three years will give you the chance to specialise a bit more, perhaps in cryptology, group theory, fluid dynamics, mathematical biology or Bayesian statistics.”
“His forte being science, engineering and technological research and design, he has spent his life up to now working on advanced military projects, cryptology and in time, space and propulsion think tanks.”
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“Criteria for detecting intelligent design are employed in SETI, cryptology, forensic science, etc.”
“Treason, double agency, counter-espionage, cryptology, code breaking … all are linked to the study of Shakespeare.”
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“I have published a few articles on untranslatable incunabula without bothering to offer any solutions, a few reviews of what is current in glyptology, cryptology, and cryptanalysis.”
“I spent almost three years in one of those buildings [at 3801 Nebraska Avenue] that had been the home of Navy cryptology.”
“Uhura entered the office of Dr. Patricia Park, a well-known mathematician and head of the cryptology lab at the college.”
“The Wall of Honor reflects that the museum is dedicated to the people who devoted their lives to cryptology and national defense -- for the most part, working secretly, in the shadows and therefore unrecognized and unappreciated -- the machines, devices and techniques they developed.”
“The Museum's reference library maintains a collection of unclassified and declassified books and documents relating to every aspect of cryptology.”
Lists
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Mirrored Vowels
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• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
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-ism's -logies
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Occult / Religious
evangelism, exorcism, fideism, Gnosticism, Hasidism, Hebraism, henotheism, hylotheism, idolism, indifferentism, infralapsarianism, ipsedixitism and 107 more...
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Jigsaw Codex
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