English > decryption: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text. |
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| Example | "a secret key or password is required for decryption" |
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| Synonyms | decoding, decipherment |
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| Narrower | decompression | restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display |
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| Broader | cryptography, coding, secret writing, steganography | Act of writing in code or cipher |
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| Spanish | decodificación, descifrado, desciframiento, descodificación, desencriptación |
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| Catalan | descodificació, desxiframent |
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| Verbs | decrypt | convert code into ordinary language |
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