Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of cryptanalysis or cryptography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Secret or occult language; cryptography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Secret or enigmatical language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The practice of analysing
encoded messages, in order todecode them. - noun Secret or enigmatical language.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
Etymologies
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Examples
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His forte being science, engineering and technological research and design, he has spent his life up to now working on advanced military projects, cryptology and in time, space and propulsion think tanks.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum 2009
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Criteria for detecting intelligent design are employed in SETI, cryptology, forensic science, etc.
Archive 2009-02-27 Nicole 2009
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Intelligence historian David Kahn spent hours patiently instructing me in the finer points of World War II tactical intelligence, cryptology, and German spying.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Treason, double agency, counter-espionage, cryptology, code breaking … all are linked to the study of Shakespeare.
Cranach Hamlet Update, Marjorie Garber, Oedipus and Detective Stories 2009
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Criteria for detecting intelligent design are employed in SETI, cryptology, forensic science, etc.
Stepping into the intelligent design debate... Nicole 2009
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Intelligence historian David Kahn spent hours patiently instructing me in the finer points of World War II tactical intelligence, cryptology, and German spying.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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The next two or three years will give you the chance to specialise a bit more, perhaps in cryptology, group theory, fluid dynamics, mathematical biology or Bayesian statistics.
Mathematics 2012
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Treason, double agency, counter-espionage, cryptology, code breaking … all are linked to the study of Shakespeare.
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I have published a few articles on untranslatable incunabula without bothering to offer any solutions, a few reviews of what is current in glyptology, cryptology, and cryptanalysis.
Excerpt from Codex Infinitum Kane X. Faucher 2010
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I spent almost three years in one of those buildings [at 3801 Nebraska Avenue] that had been the home of Navy cryptology.
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