Definitions

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  • adjective music Atonal.
  • adjective computing, cryptography Without a key.

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  • adjective characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality

Etymologies

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un- +‎ keyed

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Examples

  • He reached into his belt pouch and felt for the final stone he'd selected for this spell; a single flawless quartz-crystal, perfectly formed, unkeyed, and as colorless as pure water.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • He reached into his belt pouch and felt for the final stone he'd selected for this spell; a single flawless quartz-crystal, perfectly formed, unkeyed, and as colorless as pure water.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Also, by wholly mechanical processes of adjustment to environment, her manner and air became simpler, somewhat unkeyed: she unconsciously folded away her more shining wings.

    V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • Ollyett and I did not need to lift our little fingers any more than the Alpine climber whose last sentence has unkeyed the arch of the avalanche.

    A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The assertion has to be used as a unkeyed assertion from the intermediate requestor to the back-end service.

    Sun Bloggers Janice J. Heiss 2010

  • "As he unkeyed his microphone, he hit the T.W.A. and cut it in half," said Peter W.

    NYT > Home Page By JAMES BARRON 2010

  • "As he unkeyed his microphone, he hit the T.W.A. and cut it in half," Mr. Bernhard recalled, referring to the end of the pilot's transmission.

    NYT > Home Page By PATRICK MCGEEHAN 2010

  • Since the CRC is an unkeyed, public function, it does not provide any meaningful integrity protection for the data.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows guestf48e353 2009

  • Since about half of the letters are unkeyed, it takes insight to complete the crossword.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3 1977

  • These rules called for, among other things: no unkeyed letters, not more than one-sixth of the squares to be black, and not more than one word at a time in a space.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3 1977

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