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brute-force

brute-force is the alternative spelling of brute force.

Meaning of brute force

Verb

brute force (third-person singular simple present brute forces, present participle brute forcing, simple past and past participle brute forced)

  1. (transitive) To solve (a computational problem) by brute force.
    • "In trying to solve the problem in this simplified space, it does different things than it did when it was brute forcing its way through the original space."1960, Scott Cameron, Marshall Clinton Yovits, Self-organizing Systems: Proceedings - Page 187
  2. To break a password, encryption, or any other protection mechanism by brute force.

See all 4 meanings of brute force

Forms of brute-force

third-person singular presentbrute-forces
present participlebrute-forcing
past participlebrute-forced
pastbrute-forced

Questions about brute-force

What is brute-force the alternative spelling of?
Brute-force is the alternative spelling of brute force.

Words near brute-force in the dictionary

  1. brute forces
  2. brute forcing
  3. brute strength
  4. brute-de-forge
  5. brute-fact
  6. brute-force
  7. brute-forced
  8. brute-forcer
  9. brute-forcers
  10. brute-forces
  11. brute-forcing

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