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A numeric character.
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Any text character.
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A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram.
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a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc.
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A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
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The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.
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A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
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Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
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The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.
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A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
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The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros.
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A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
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A hip-hop jam session.
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The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
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Someone or something of no importance.
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Zero.