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cryp·to·gram

 (krĭp′tə-grăm′)
n.
1. A piece of writing in code or cipher. Also called cryptograph.
2. A figure or representation having a secret or occult significance.

cryp′to·gram′mic adj.
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cryptogram

(ˈkrɪptəʊɡræm)
n
(Communications & Information) a secret symbol
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cryp•to•gram

(ˈkrɪp təˌgræm)

n.
1. a message or writing in code or cipher.
2. an occult symbol or representation.
[1875–80]
cryp`to•gram′mic, cryp`to•gram•mat′ic (-grəˈmæt ɪk) cryp`to•gram•mat′i•cal, adj.
cryp`to•gram′ma•tist, n.
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cryptogram

a message or writing in code or cipher. Also cryptograph. — cryptogrammic, adj.
See also: Code
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.cryptogram - a piece of writing in code or ciphercryptogram - a piece of writing in code or cipher
piece of writing, written material, writing - the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
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Translations

cryptogram

[ˈkrɪptəʊgræm] Ncriptograma m
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cryptogram

nKryptogramm nt
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cryptogram

[ˈkrɪptəʊˌgræm] ncrittogramma m
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References in classic literature ?
Therefore, though the whole point of his "Current Shorthand" is that it can express every sound in the language perfectly, vowels as well as consonants, and that your hand has to make no stroke except the easy and current ones with which you write m, n, and u, l, p, and q, scribbling them at whatever angle comes easiest to you, his unfortunate determination to make this remarkable and quite legible script serve also as a Shorthand reduced it in his own practice to the most inscrutable of cryptograms. His true objective was the provision of a full, accurate, legible script for our noble but ill-dressed language; but he was led past that by his contempt for the popular Pitman system of Shorthand, which he called the Pitfall system.
Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.
As to the cipher systems supposed to reveal hidden messages in the plays: First, no poet bending his energies to the composition of such masterpieces as Shakspere's could possibly concern himself at the same time with weaving into them a complicated and trifling cryptogram. Second, the cipher systems are absolutely arbitrary and unscientific, applied to any writings whatever can be made to 'prove' anything that one likes, and indeed have been discredited in the hands of their own inventors by being made to 'prove' far too much.
She also took classes in painting, drawing, cryptograms, cooking, ceramics, and creative writing.
She enjoyed reading, memorizing poems and Bible verses, doing cryptograms, sudoku, and other puzzles.
As the murderer went about his gruesome work, he regularly mocked the police and the public by sending letters containing confusing cryptograms to the Bay Area newspapers.
The Zodiac Killer was known for sending cryptograms to newspapers, as well as leaving a circular symbol as his calling card.
But one towered above the rest - the famed Zodiac Killer, so called because some of the cryptograms he sent to taunt the police and newspapers included astrological symbols.
One reason why this book is more interesting than some of his more recent efforts is that there is less action, fewer puzzles and cryptograms, than usual: he concentrates more on intellectual ideas, which are what really excites him." JAKE KERRIDGE
Once the cryptograms have been embedded in the image, users would require information on the coordinates and size of each face in order to recover them.
IDEMIA, the global provider of trusted identities for an increasingly digital world, has announced that MOTION CODE(TM) cryptograms can be deployed faster reducing drastically the time to market for banks so that they can immediately begin offering this unique payment solution to consumers, the company said.