Nonce

//nɒns//

"Nonce" in a Sentence (17 examples)

He is such a nonce!

"Chortle" was a nonce word when it was first created, but now it's a regular English word.

That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.

[...] Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, / After a life spent training for the sight!

'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.

I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.

The protocol opens with A communicating in clear to AS his own claimed identity and the identity of the desired correspondent, B, together with A's nonce identifier for this transaction, I_(A1). ("Nonce" means "used only once.")

The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce.

Both CCM and GCM require a unique nonce (N used once) value to maintain their privacy and authenticity goals.

The main idea with the challenge-response type of authentication protocol is that the challenge sent by the server is used only once (referred to as a cryptographic nonce, which means “number used once”).

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But particular men are not stereotyped for jobs nor particular desks (as against others) to sit at - the standard here is nonce.

Dickinson's association of heliotrope with Mary Bowles was nonce and fleeting, but the subject of gardens was always a safe one on which to address her: “How is your garden – Mary? Are the Pinks true –?”

Poplack et al. (1988, 57) found that 65% of their types were nonce and only 7% of the types were considered widespread.

Some of the single-citation terms appeared to be nonce formations, that is, created for the occasion.

1989 "assorted nonces, ponces and murderers, 'the worst men in the world' … on the nonce wing, where the child-killers, molesters and various perverts have to be protected from the other prisoners." (New Statesman, New Society, Volume 2, Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited)

‘He's a nonce[. A] nonsense merchant, a paedophile[,’ Terry explained.]

Shut it, ya nonce!

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