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cryptology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /kɹɪpˈtɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ (US)
• /kɹɪpˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/ (UK)

Etymology

From crypto- + -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”); originally after Latin cryptologia, which is apparently first recorded in an English context.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
   • Meronyms: cryptography, cryptanalysis; encoding, decoding; encrypting, decrypting, decyphering
2. (uncountable, usually) The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
   • Near-synonyms: cryptanalysis, decoding, decrypting, decyphering
3. (uncountable, usually) Secret or enigmatical language.
   • But the question of speech-play causes confusion to the slang researcher because this subject borders on family slang, private lingo, secret language, cryptologies, disguised language of children and grown-ups 1991, English Studies:

Forms

Deriveds

cryptologically · cryptex · cryptologic · cryptological

Relateds

cryptography · code · ciphertext · plaintext · cryptanalysis · key · cleartext

Synonyms

decyphering · decoding · cryptanalysis · decrypting

Translations (26)

sv kryptologi (study) · de Kryptologie (practice) · it crittologia (practice) · fi salakirjoitustaito (practice) · sv kryptologi (practice) · ja 暗号学 (practice) · ka კრიპტოლოგია (practice) · bg криптология (practice) · fi kryptologia (study) · cmn 密碼學 /密码学 (practice) · fi salakirjoitustiede (study) · fi kryptografia (practice) · lt kriptologija (practice) · ru криптоло́гия (practice) · sh kriptologija (practice) · fr cryptologie (practice) · es criptología (practice) · pl kryptologia (practice) · ms kriptologi (practice) · et krüptoloogia (practice) · is dulmálsfræði (practice) · km រហស្សវិទ្យា (practice) · cmn 密码术 (practice) · fi salakieli (secret or enigmatical language) · da kryptologi (practice) · pt criptologia (practice)