cryptology

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English

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Etymology

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From crypto- +‎ -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, hidden) + λόγος (lógos, word).

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Noun

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cryptology (usually uncountable, plural cryptologies)

  1. The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
  2. The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
  3. Secret or enigmatical language.
    • 1991, English Studies:
      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-ups

Usage notes

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An umbrella term for cryptography and cryptanalysis.

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