Decipherment

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text wordnet
  3. 3
    Decryption. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From decipher + -ment.

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