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  1. noun A secret word or phrase that one uses to gain admittance or access to information.
  2. noun Computer Science A sequence of characters that one must input to gain access to a file, application, or computer system. Also called passkey.

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  • They had a vast and fundamentally childish panoply of measures to preserve secrecy--passwords, hand signals, ways of passing information in complicated and difficult ways. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 03 - March 2000
  • These days, it is unlikely that a system administrator would unprotect the SYSUAF.DAT file (where the passwords are actually located). —  Maximum Security -- Ch 19 -- T
  • Your passwords are the keys to your computers heart and soul so guard them with care.
  • Frequently updating privileged account passwords is an increasingly vital security best practice and regulatory compliance mandate. —  Help Net Security - News
  • It doesn't have tabbed browsing or remember passwords, and it has trouble rendering some pages. —  Low End Mac
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