Usually means: Encryption method for securing communication.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word cipher:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. cipher: Merriam-Webster
  2. cipher: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cipher: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cipher: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cipher: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cipher, cipher: Wordnik
  7. cipher: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cipher: Wiktionary
  9. cipher: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cipher: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cipher: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cipher, cipher: Dictionary.com
  13. cipher: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cipher: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CIPHER, Cipher (band), Cipher (comics), Cipher (disambiguation), Cipher (manga), Cipher (newuniversal), Cipher: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cipher: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cipher: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cipher: Rhymezone
  19. Cipher: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cipher: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cipher: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. CIPHER: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Cipher: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. cipher: FreeDictionary.org
  25. cipher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. cipher: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. cipher: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. cipher: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cipher: Netlingo
  2. cipher: CCI Computer
  3. cipher: Hacking Lexicon
  4. Technopedia (No longer online)
  5. cipher: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CIPHER: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. cipher: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cipher: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cipher, cipher: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cipher: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See ciphered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A numeric character.
noun:  Any text character.
noun:  A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
noun:  A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
noun:  (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
noun:  Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
noun:  A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
noun:  (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
noun:  (music, slang) A hip-hop jam session.
noun:  (slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
noun:  Someone or something of no importance.
noun:  (dated) Zero.
noun:  Eggcorn of siphon.
verb:  (intransitive, regional, dated) To calculate.
verb:  (intransitive) To write in code or cipher.
verb:  (intransitive, music) Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
verb:  (obsolete) To decipher.

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