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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scrambler
noun
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▪ Ben's greatest wish is that when he grows up, he becomes a professional scrambler.
▪ But cost is holding back a rapid introduction of the scramblers.
▪ I, apparently, am a scrambler.
▪ Luckily for us scramblers, there is a group even further down the mountain social scale.
▪ She shrugged, went over to the bidet, washed herself and inserted her tiny scrambler.
▪ Some one invents a scrambler device so people can use their Cellnet phones without the opposition listening in.
▪ The Navy had dispatched a portable KYX-2 field-unit scrambler.
▪ There's noticeably less equipment hanging from a scrambler, but pound for pound there will be more fleecy material visible.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrambler

Scrambler \Scram"bler\, n.

  1. One who scrambles; one who climbs on all fours.

  2. A greedy and unceremonious contestant.

Wiktionary
scrambler

n. 1 Someone or something that scrambles. 2 A device that makes messages intentionally, but reversibly, unintelligible for reasons of privacy or security. 3 A motorcycle used for motocross.

WordNet
scrambler
  1. n. a rapid mover; someone who scrambles; "their quarterback was a good scrambler"; "scramblers can often unnerve a better tennis player"

  2. a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tires and suspension; an off-road motorcycle designed for riding cross country or over unpaved ground [syn: trail bike, dirt bike]

  3. electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception

Wikipedia
Scrambler

In telecommunications, a scrambler is a device that transposes or inverts signals or otherwise encodes a message at the senders side to make the message unintelligible at a receiver not equipped with an appropriately set descrambling device. Whereas encryption usually refers to operations carried out in the digital domain, scrambling usually refers to operations carried out in the analog domain. Scrambling is accomplished by the addition of components to the original signal or the changing of some important component of the original signal in order to make extraction of the original signal difficult. Examples of the latter might include removing or changing vertical or horizontal sync pulses in television signals; televisions will not be able to display a picture from such a signal. Some modern scramblers are actually encryption devices, the name remaining due to the similarities in use, as opposed to internal operation.

In telecommunications and recording, a scrambler (also referred to as a randomizer) is a device that manipulates a data stream before transmitting. The manipulations are reversed by a descrambler at the receiving side. Scrambling is widely used in satellite, radio relay communications and PSTN modems. A scrambler can be placed just before a FEC coder, or it can be placed after the FEC, just before the modulation or line code. A scrambler in this context has nothing to do with encrypting, as the intent is not to render the message unintelligible, but to give the transmitted data useful engineering properties.

A scrambler replaces sequences (referred to as whitening sequences) into other sequences without removing undesirable sequences, and as a result it changes the probability of occurrence of vexatious sequences. Clearly it is not foolproof as there are input sequences that yield all-zeros, all-ones, or other undesirable periodic output sequences. A scrambler is therefore not a good substitute for a line code, which, through a coding step, removes unwanted sequences.

Scrambler (comics)

Scrambler (Kim Il Sung) is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. He first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #210 and was created by Chris Claremont, John Romita Jr and Dan Green.

Scrambler (disambiguation)

A scrambler is a telecommunications device that transposes or inverts signals or otherwise encodes a message.

Scrambler may also refer to:

  • Scrambler (ride), a type of amusement ride
  • Scrambler mouse, a mouse mutant lacking a functional DAB1 gene

Usage examples of "scrambler".

Worms, viruses, and Trojan horses would be their gifts to Grandmother, and they would leave explosive blocks, borers, and scramblers to infect the remaining data.

Britannia flashed, emitting now a scream of peculiarly patterned interference which was not only a scrambler of all un-Lensed communication throughout that whole part of the galaxy, but also an imperative call for any mauler within range.

From what Deck had told her, with the scrambler chip out of play everything would be exponentially more open to trace when the Shadow Voice came back online.

Slowly Conway adjusted the unscrambler, pushing it in deeper and extracting it again until it matched exactly a scrambler, similar in nature but opposite in function, at the other end of the signal.

As time went on, the Rainfall cryptologists discovered enough toeholds in the Soviet scrambler phone so that they were able to break the system even when it was properly scrambled.

So Marshall shunned the scrambler telephone and relied on the slightly slower but much more secure method of enciphering a written message.

Evans, the Commander-in-Chief, on a scrambler phone to tell him he had just heard from Colonel Dick Fulbright that the first of the B-26Ks for the Congo would be ferried to Hurlburt Field, Florida, almost immediately.

We went upstairs and while the General went to talk for quite a long time on the scrambler radio-phone in the police van that had followed us from Alfringham, Hardanger and I, with the assistance of two police drivers and a couple of torches, started to scour the grounds.

Using a simple row of toggle switches and a round wafer-selector switch, the pilot could simultaneously monitor two UHF radios, two FM radios, a VHF radio, an HF radio, a secure scrambler system, an FM homer, a Guard channel radio for use in emergencies, and assorted navigational gear.

By Wednesday, he was asking classified questions over a scrambler phone of people in Washington, one of whom finally told him he was an arrogant shithead and banged down the phone.

Maybe if we run it through a triphasic subspace oscillation router, or couple it to a code scrambler.

Worms, viruses, and Trojan horses would be their gifts to Grandmother, and they would leave explosive blocks, borers, and scramblers to infect the remaining data.

Roosevelt and Winston Churchill carried on, over a scrambler phone, a series of highly sensitive discussions regarding the growing war in Europe.

In my pockets were a freon spray, a scrambler, a laser torch, and an ultrasonic whistle.

In one of the revetments on the next lower level, the dragoon troops had brought from somewhere a portable screen communicator with scrambler set up or, for all that Chen could tell, what they were using might have been a part of the built-in intercom between the command bunkers and this control center of the firing range.