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polyalphabetic

polyalphabetic adjective: describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.

Adjective

polyalphabetic (not comparable)

  1. Describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.

Origin of polyalphabetic

From poly- + alphabetic.

Words formed from polyalphabetic

Questions about polyalphabetic

What does polyalphabetic mean?
Polyalphabetic means describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.
What part of speech is polyalphabetic?
Polyalphabetic is an adjective.

Words near polyalphabetic in the dictionary

  1. polyallomer
  2. polyallomers
  3. polyallyl
  4. polyallylamine
  5. polyallylamines
  6. polyalphabetic
  7. polyalphabetically
  8. polyalphaolefin
  9. polyalphaolefins
  10. polyalternating
  11. polyam

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