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trapdooring

trapdooring is the present participle and gerund of trapdoor.

Meaning of trapdoor

Verb

trapdoor (third-person singular simple present trapdoors, present participle trapdooring, simple past and past participle trapdoored)

  1. (transitive) To subvert (a cryptographic scheme) by means of a secret parameter that makes the trapdoor function easy to compute.
  2. (intransitive) To form a trapdoor deformity.

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Questions about trapdooring

What is trapdooring the present participle and gerund of?
Trapdooring is the present participle and gerund of trapdoor.

Words near trapdooring in the dictionary

  1. trapdoor function
  2. trapdoor functions
  3. trapdoor spider
  4. trapdoor spiders
  5. trapdoored
  6. trapdooring
  7. trapdoors
  8. trape
  9. traped
  10. trapes
  11. trapesed

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