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cipher Definition

• (n) a message written in a secret code
• (n) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
• (n) 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"
• (n) a person of no influence
• (n) a secret method of writing
• (v) convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons"
• (v) make a mathematical calculation or computation

cipher Synonyms

• 0
• aught
• calculate
• cipher
• code
• compute
• cryptograph
• cypher
• encipher
• encode
• encrypt
• figure
• goose egg
• inscribe
• nada
• naught
• nil
• nix
• nobody
• nonentity
• nothing
• nought
• null
• reckon
• secret code
• work out
• write in code
• zero
• zilch
• zip