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A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
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cypher
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Cypher ( Douglas "Doug" Ramsey ) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character appears usually in the X-Men family of books, in particular those featuring The New Mutants , of which Cypher has been ...
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Cypher \Cy"pher\ (s?"f?r), n. & v. See Cipher . [1913 Webster] ||
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n. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number [syn: zero , 0 , nought , cipher ] a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up ...
Usage examples of cypher.
Raven Cypher to conjure up a shadow-demon who can split rock and make the earth breathe fire.
He had already decided that he could not afford to linger in the city - no matter how important the Raven Cypher might be - and that he would start to look for a passage on one of the river boats immediately.
It took only a brief examination to confirm that she was indeed a sleeper, and Terrel reflected grimly that the Raven Cypher had been right after all.
We know nothing of this Raven Cypher, and it seems to contradict the Code.
Roskin and I came across part of the cypher that had never made sense before, she told him.
Making a curt excuse, she took her leave, and within the hour she was on her way back to London, with a clue to the cypher in her brain.
Merrick exposed an opposition agent actually installed in the cypher room of the British Embassy it was going to make a nasty bang at a time when the East-West delegates were sending each other roses.
Here at last was news from Badminton and from Monmouth and Hereford: and at the foot, in the cypher which was that most commonly used among the Jacobites, was a further note dealing with Sir Watkin Wynn.
I remember how one used to be told that no code or cypher which was practically useful was really undiscoverable, and in a sense that is true, especially of codes.
The more valuable stuff was in cypher, and that was another pair of shoes.
There is nothing to prevent a cypher having a double meaning, produced by two different methods, and, as a practical question, you have to decide which meaning is intended.
There was one cypher which always defeated us, a cypher used between the German General Staff and their forces in the East.
It was a locked cypher, and Channell had given more time to it than to any dozen of the others, for it put him on his mettle.
She told me that she did not keep it under lock and key, because it was written in a cypher, the secret of which was known only to herself.
The letter containing this vast secret was not in cypher, so I advised him to burn it after he had read it, assuring him that I possessed a copy.