"encryption" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈkɹɪpʃən/ [Canada, US], /ɛnˈkɹɪpʃən/ [Canada, US], /ɪŋˈkɹɪpʃən/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-encryption.wav [Southern-England] Forms: encryptions [plural]
Etymology: encrypt + -ion Etymology templates: {{suf|en|encrypt|ion}} encrypt + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} encryption (usually uncountable, plural encryptions)
  1. (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Cryptography Translations (process): encriptació [feminine] (Catalan), 加密 (jiāmì) (Chinese Mandarin), šifrování [neuter] (Czech), zašifrování [neuter] (Czech), kryptering [neuter] (Danish), ĉifrado (Esperanto), salaus (Finnish), salakirjoitus (Finnish), chiffrement (French), დაშიფვრა (dašipvra) (Georgian), Verschlüsselung [feminine] (German), κρυπτογράφηση (kryptográfisi) (Greek), cifratura [feminine] (Italian), codifica [feminine] (Italian), 暗号化 (angōka) (alt: あんごうか) (Japanese), 암호화 (amhohwa) (alt: 暗號化) (Korean), šifravimas (Lithuanian), kriptografija (Lithuanian), رمزگذاری (ramz-gozâri) (Persian), szyfrowanie [neuter] (Polish), encriptação [feminine] (Portuguese), criptare [feminine] (Romanian), шифрова́ние (šifrovánije) [neuter] (Russian), шифро́вка (šifróvka) [feminine] (Russian), encriptación (Spanish), kryptering [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-encryption-en-noun-oi1oopDl Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'process': 100 0
  2. (cryptography) A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Cryptography Translations (something encrypted): kryptering [neuter] (Danish), salakirjoitus (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-encryption-en-noun-Mc~gJsyF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 38 62 Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'something encrypted': 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: homomorphic encryption, on-the-fly encryption, superencryption, unencryption Related terms: encrypt, decrypt

Inflected forms

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      "word": "encriptación"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "process",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kryptering"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "something encrypted",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kryptering"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something encrypted",
      "word": "salakirjoitus"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "encryption"
  ],
  "word": "encryption"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.