Usually means: Temporary, unique number used once.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word nonce:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. nonce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nonce, nonce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nonce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nonce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nonce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nonce, nonce: Wordnik
  7. nonce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nonce: Wiktionary
  9. nonce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nonce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nonce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nonce, nonce: Dictionary.com
  13. nonce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Nonce, The Nonce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nonce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nonce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nonce: Rhymezone
  18. Nonce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nonce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. nonce: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Nonce: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. nonce: Free Dictionary
  23. nonce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. nonce: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. nonce: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Nonce: World Wide Words

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nonce: Hacking Lexicon
  2. nonce: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NONCE: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nonce, nonce: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. nonce: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See nonces as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nonce)

noun:  The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
noun:  (lexicography) A nonce word.
noun:  (cryptography) A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
adjective:  One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once.
noun:  (British, Ireland, derogatory) A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children.
noun:  (by extension) A pedophile.
noun:  (British, Ireland, prison slang, derogatory) A police informer, one who betrays a criminal enterprise
noun:  (British, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A stupid or worthless person.

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