Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
Any of a set of stackable disks, each having the letters of the alphabet arranged in some sequence around its edge, used in a cipher system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Commonly attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
