cryptology
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8.7
- noun
- /krɪpˈtɑːlədʒi/
- Specialized
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criptología
- During World War II, many spies relied on cryptology to send secure messages.
- cryptology program
Examples
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Understanding cryptology is essential for anyone interested in cybersecurity.
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In your three years in cryptology, you've managed to keep business and pleasure separate.
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Captain Thurman's cryptology team is still trying to crack the naval codes.
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We are asking anyone interested in cryptology, numerology, and mathematics to join us in solving the mystery and extracting the hidden payload.
Blog text (26) -
She slowly learned that the cryptology programs had more flexibility than she could have expected, and that with a few nudges, the software could examine the videos and look for information.
Fiction book (1998) -
Each side bears the name of one of the three mathematics students who attended the 1929 cryptology course and subsequently collaborated on breaking the Enigma cipher.
Blog text (14) -
The field of cryptology involves both creating and breaking codes.
Synonyms
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7.4
To make and break codes to keep messages secret
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9.6
Study of how people find weaknesses in codes and break secret messages
The study of finding and reading secret codes
Surface Forms
Morphology
cryptology = crypto + logy
The word is built from the classical combining form crypto and the suffix -logy, so the overall technical meaning is fairly predictable even though the elements are not ordinary standalone words for most learners.
Etymology
Cryptology comes from the Greek root crypt- meaning 'hidden' and the ending -logy meaning 'study', like in biology. So, cryptology is the study of hidden writing and secret codes.