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Definition of Trapdoor
1. n. A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
Definition of Trapdoor
1. Noun. A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling. ¹
2. Noun. (context: theater) Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances. ¹
3. Noun. (computing) A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor. ¹
4. Noun. (mathematics cryptography) The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trapdoor
1. a lifting or sliding door covering an opening [n -S]
Medical Definition of Trapdoor
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1. A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trapdoor
Literary usage of Trapdoor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"trapdoor. Heart, this is no good dealing: pray let me know what house you are of
... trapdoor. I like you the worse, because you shift your lodging so often ..."
2. Practical Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1915)
"trapdoor Spider. — The nests of the trapdoor spider, often seen in collections
of curios, usually come ... A, tarantula; B, trapdoor spider. (From Coleman. ..."
3. The Garter Mission to Japan (1906)
"... which leads to what were the Mikado's apartments, there is a trapdoor —I know
not what other name to give it—which is loose, and yields about an inch at ..."
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