Cryptology

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  • noun. The study of cryptanalysis or cryptography.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Secret or occult language; cryptography.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Secret or enigmatical language.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
  • noun. Secret or enigmatical language.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
  • Word Usage
    "Intelligence historian David Kahn spent hours patiently instructing me in the finer points of World War II tactical intelligence, cryptology, and German spying."
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