Crossword clues for decipherment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decipherment \De*ci"pher*ment\, n. The act of deciphering.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost. 2 decryption.
WordNet
n. the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text; "a secret key or password is required for decryption" [syn: decoding, decryption]
Wikipedia
Decipherment (in philology) is the discovery of the meaning of texts written in obscure languages or scripts, which are almost always ancient. Decipherment in cryptography refers to decryption. The term is used sardonically in everyday language to describe attempts to read poor handwriting. In genetics the term is used to describe successful attempts to understand DNA, which is viewed metaphorically as a text containing word-like units. Throughout science the term decipherment is synonymous with the understanding of biological and chemical phenomena.
Usage examples of "decipherment".
Since encipherment and decipherment were reciprocal, the same arrangement served for both.
The decipherment of the Behistun inscription alone yielded more information on the Persepolitan rulers than all the authors of antiquity taken together had been able to supply.
For at table at the Riverbank cottages they heard gaudy tales of lusty Elizabethan life, of the not-so-Virgin Queen, of courtiers' intrigues and the secret histories of the great names of English history—all actually invalid decipherments of Shakespeare's plays tending to prove that Bacon had written them, related by the gentle, upright, but self-deluded woman who had "deciphered" them, Mrs.
They may run test decipherments, simulating rotors wired in various ways and turning in various periods, and print out the test solutions at rates up to 600 lines per minute, starring those solutions that statistically most resemble plaintext.
Each country's Commission possesses its Archive of the Game, that is, the register of all hitherto examined and accepted symbols and decipherments, whose number long ago by far exceeded the number of the ancient Chinese ideographs.