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Definition of Decipherment
1. Noun. The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text. "A secret key or password is required for decryption"
Generic synonyms: Coding, Cryptography, Secret Writing, Steganography
Specialized synonyms: Decompression
Derivative terms: Decipher, Decode, Decrypt
Definition of Decipherment
1. n. The act of deciphering.
Definition of Decipherment
1. Noun. The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost. ¹
2. Noun. decryption ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decipherment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decipherment
Literary usage of Decipherment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers (1915)
"The second called for attempts at its decipherment. ... But whatever their language
might be named, some one must essay its decipherment. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The decipherment of Persian was followed by a determined attempt to solve the far
... Contemporaneously with the decipherment of Assyrian went forward the ..."
3. Ancient Times, a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of by James Henry Breasted (1916)
"THE decipherment OF EGYPTIAN WRITING BY CHAMPOLLION Finally, our Nile voyage has
also shown us how we gain 127. in mod- knowledge of ancient men and their ..."
4. Proceedings by Bruce A. Suprenant, James L. Noland, M.P. Schuller, University of Colorado (1907)
"THE METHOD, VERIFICATION, AND RESULTS OF MY decipherment OF THEM. BY PROF.
AH SAYCE, DD I have been asked to give an account, which shall be as short and ..."
5. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"decipherment a Practical Problem We see, then, that decipherment is more a
practical than a theoretically scientific problem, and that even when it calls in ..."
6. Assyrian Language: Easy Lessons in the Cuneiform Inscriptions by Leonard William King (1901)
"In order to make clear the different steps in his process of decipherment the
lower halves of the two inscriptions are printed on the following page.1 1 The ..."
7. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History by Morris Jastrow (1915)
"... decipherment OF CUNEIFORM SCRIPTS THE question may now be asked, how was it
made possible to read the wedge-shaped characters found on the monuments, ..."
8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"The torn condition of many leaves, the faded state of the ink, and the covering
of the original writing by the later made the decipherment an extremely ..."
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