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Cryptology

//kɹɪpˈtɑ.lə.d͡ʒi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories. uncountable, usually

    "Meronyms: cryptography, cryptanalysis; encoding, decoding; encrypting, decrypting, decyphering"

  2. 2
    the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms wordnet
  3. 3
    The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them. uncountable, usually

    "Near-synonyms: cryptanalysis, decoding, decrypting, decyphering"

  4. 4
    Secret or enigmatical language. uncountable, usually

    "But the question of speech-play causes confusion to the slang researcher because this subject borders on family slang, private lingo, secret language, cryptologies, disguised language of children and grown-ups"

Etymology

From crypto- + -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”); originally after Latin cryptologia, which is apparently first recorded in an English context.

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