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👤 A nobody 0️⃣ The number zero 💻 A database language 🕵️ A secret code 🧮 To calculate 🔐 To encode
cypher

cypher

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A computer language for getting and changing data in graph databases
  • noun
  • /ˈsaɪfər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : Cypher

Examples

  • Tyler and Stone ran past him, not bothering to return his salute, and Tyler punched in the code to the Cypher-Lock beside the steel P151 door.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • To retrieve data from the graph database, you can use the cypher query language.

  • The developers wrote a complex cypher to efficiently access the stored information.

  • When using Neo4j, you must learn how to construct a cypher that fulfills your data retrieval needs.

Surface Forms

cypher singular
cyphers plural

Etymology

Cypher the database language takes its name from the old word cypher meaning 'code' or 'secret writing', itself from Arabic sifr 'zero'. Think of it as a 'code language' you use to ask a graph database for information.