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Definition of Codebook
1. Noun. (cryptography) A book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code. ¹
2. Noun. (computer science) A lookup table. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Codebook
1. a book listing words and their coded equivalents [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Codebook
Literary usage of Codebook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Costs in Workers Compensation: Interstate Comparisons: Minnesota by Greg Gifford (1990)
"The codebook documents the data provided for each claim including personal data,
selected indemnity data and the data reflecting each bill submitted to ..."
2. Defending Secrets, Sharing Data: New Locks and Keys for Electronic Information (1993)
"The analogy to a codebook arises because the same plaintext block always produces
the ... Thus a list (or codebook) of plaintext blocks and corresponding ..."