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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.
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noun
A manual symmetric encryption technique that encrypts pairs of letters (digraphs).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Named after Lord Playfair, who promoted it. (It was invented in 1854 by Charles Wheatstone.)
