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telecipher

noun

Etymology

From tele- + cipher.

  1. derived from صِفْر
  2. derived from cyfre
  3. inherited from cifre
  4. prefixed as telecipher — “tele + cipher”

Definitions

  1. A cipher machine that works in conjunction with a teletypewriter.

    • The reason was a cipher machine known as the telecipher.
    • In addition to the Enigma ciphers, a number of other telecipher machines were used for high-level communication.
    • Initially, the attention was focused on the development of a telecipher machine in collaboration with Gretener.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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