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n.密码

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cipher为短语/超纲词汇

词形变化:

动词过去式:ciphered 过去分词:ciphered 现在分词:ciphering 第三人称单数:ciphers

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cipher


v [Tn] write (a message) in secret writing; encode 用密码书写(信息); 译成密码.

cipher


n
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French;Origin: cifre, from Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic sifr 'empty, zero']
[U and C]formal
a system of secret writing
= code
 an expert in ciphers
 messages written in cipher
[C]
someone who is not important and has no power or influence
 At work, she was a cipher, a functionary, nothing more.
literary[C]
the number 0
= zero