English dictionary
cipher
nounAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a message written in a secret code
noun
- a secret method of writing
noun
- a person of no influence
noun
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
noun
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
verb
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
verb
- convert ordinary language into code
Example sentences
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
We should encode the message for security reasons