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ENCRYPTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of converting data or information into code

Synonyms:

encoding; encryption

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("encryption" is a kind of...):

coding; cryptography; secret writing; steganography (act of writing in code or cipher)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "encryption"):

compression (encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required)

data encryption ((computer science) the encryption of data for security purposes)

Derivation:

encrypt (convert ordinary language into code)

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