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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- plaintext usually a single compound word in cryptography and computing.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛkst
Noun
[edit]- (cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
- Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.
- (computing) Data which consists only of human-readable text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatting markup.
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]- (cryptography) ciphertext
Translations
[edit]unencrypted text — see cleartext
data that consists only of human-readable text
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Adjective
[edit]plain text (not comparable)
- (cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plaintext