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cryptologies

cryptologies is the plural of cryptology.

Meaning of cryptology

Noun

cryptology (usually uncountable, plural cryptologies)

  1. (usually) The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
    • Meronyms: cryptography, cryptanalysis; encoding, decoding; encrypting, decrypting, decyphering
  2. (usually) The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
    • Near-synonyms: cryptanalysis, decoding, decrypting, decyphering
  3. (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-ups1991, English Studies

Questions about cryptologies

What is cryptologies the plural of?
Cryptologies is the plural of cryptology.

Words near cryptologies in the dictionary

  1. cryptologer
  2. cryptologers
  3. cryptologic
  4. cryptological
  5. cryptologically
  6. cryptologies
  7. cryptologist
  8. cryptologists
  9. cryptology
  10. cryptomaria
  11. cryptomarket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cryptologies (page history and authors); cryptology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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