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cryptophone

noun

Etymology

From crypto- + phone.

  1. derived from φωνή — “sound”
  2. prefixed as cryptophone — “crypto + phone”

Definitions

  1. A secure telephone that provides security against eavesdropping and electronic…

    A secure telephone that provides security against eavesdropping and electronic surveillance.

    • The bulky refrigerator-size boxes that scrambled the phone discussions of Roosevelt and Churchill are just steps from the hefty cryptophones of the 1970s and more modern versions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cryptophone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA