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Meaning of cipher

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  cipher
      n 1: a message written in a secret code [syn: {cipher},
           {cypher}]
      2: a mathematical element that when added to another number
         yields the same number [syn: {zero}, {0}, {nought}, {cipher},
         {cypher}]
      3: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
         ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done";
         "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught";
         "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: {nothing}, {nil}, {nix},
         {nada}, {null}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose egg},
         {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}, {zippo}]
      4: a person of no influence [syn: {cipher}, {cypher}, {nobody},
         {nonentity}]
      5: a secret method of writing [syn: {cipher}, {cypher},
         {cryptograph}, {secret code}]
      v 1: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the
           message for security reasons" [syn: {code}, {encipher},
           {cipher}, {cypher}, {encrypt}, {inscribe}, {write in code}]
      2: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn:
         {calculate}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {compute}, {work out},
         {reckon}, {figure}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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