decipherment

noun

Etymology

From decipher + -ment.

Definitions

  1. The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or…

    The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.

  2. Decryption.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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