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Enigma machines

Enigma machines is the plural of Enigma machine.

Meaning of Enigma machine

Noun

Enigma machine (plural Enigma machines)

  1. (historical) A small portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, made famous by Germany in WWII.
  2. (figuratively) Something which decrypts or makes understandable something enigmatic.
    • No one needed an Enigma machine to figure out why Jimmy Carter was recalling his days aboard a nuclear submarine.2004, New Yorker, 9 - 16 August 2004, page 37

Questions about Enigma machines

What is Enigma machines the plural of?
Enigma machines is the plural of Enigma machine.

Words near Enigma machines in the dictionary

  1. Enif
  2. enigma
  3. enigma canon
  4. enigma canons
  5. Enigma machine
  6. Enigma machines
  7. enigmalike
  8. enigmas
  9. enigmata
  10. enigmatic
  11. enigmatic canon

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