Definition of "enciphering" [enciphering]

• Present participle of encipher. (verb)

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• "He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science."
• "An apparatus for enciphering and deciphering messages comprising a group of elements adapted to represent successively the characters of the message, a second group of elements adapted to represent successively a series of ciphering characters and means controlled by the joint effect of said groups of elements for indicating the characters of the enciphered or deciphered message ."
• "The method of enciphering signals where the characters are represented by a number of periods of different current values which consists in altering the normal code impulses of a character to be transmitted in accordance with a rule represented by some other character in a like code."