noun.
The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
noun.
A nonce word.
noun.
A number, usually generated randomly or from the time, used once in a cryptographic protocol, to prevent replay attacks.
adjective.
denoting something occurring once.
noun.
A sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile.
noun.
A stupid or worthless person.
noun.
A datum constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
noun.
In a security engineering context, a value used only once.