nonce
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[edit] Etymology 1
From a misdivision in Middle English of þan anes (“‘the one (occasion, instance)’”).
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nonce (plural nonces)
- The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
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- That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, chapter 6:
- 'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.
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- (lexicography) A nonce word.
- I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
- (British, slang, pejorative) A sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile.
- That bloke who lives at number 53A is a nonce!
- (British, slang) A stupid or worthless person.
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The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose
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A sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile
A stupid or worthless person
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[edit] Etymology 2
Abbreviation of number used once.
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nonce (plural nonces)
- (cryptography) A datum constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
- In this protocol we use the serial number of the message as a nonce.
- (cryptography) In a security engineering context, a value used only once.
- 1999, Network Working Group, RFC 2617 -- HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication, The Internet Society, page 22,
- The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce.
- 1999, Network Working Group, RFC 2617 -- HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication, The Internet Society, page 22,
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nonce m. (plural nonces)
