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Scrambler

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that scrambles (in various senses).

    "May it comfort us latter-day scramblers up that fine old mountain to know that Le Conte found it "difficult and fatiguing in the extreme.""

  2. 2
    electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception wordnet
  3. 3
    A vine that does not attach itself to its supports.

    "Scramblers and palms that climb with the aid of hook-bearing leaves or modified inflorescences (i.e. Desmoncus and the lepidocaryoid rattans) climbed most successfully in dense clusters of small diameter supports, such as occur on the edge of treefall gaps."

  4. 4
    a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tires and suspension; an off-road motorcycle designed for riding cross country or over unpaved ground wordnet
  5. 5
    A device that makes messages intentionally, but reversibly, unintelligible for reasons of privacy or security.

    "In the movies spies are always talking over cell phones with built-in scramblers."

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  1. 6
    a rapid mover; someone who scrambles wordnet
  2. 7
    A motorcycle used for motocross.

Etymology

From scramble + -er.

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