Nonce

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  • noun. The present or particular occasion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • A word of no independent status, used only in the following phrases.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce, i. e. for the present time.
  • noun. “a word apparently employed only for the nonce”.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the present occasion
  • Word Usage
    "In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce sometimes spelled "nonse" is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser."
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