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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

polyalphabetic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English alphabetic English polyalphabetic From poly- + alphabetic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.

Deriveds

polyalphabetically