Definition of "encrypt" []

• To put into code or cipher. (verb-transitive)
• Computer Science To alter (a file, for example) using a secret code so as to be unintelligible to unauthorized parties. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term encrypt t1; t2 represents t1 encrypted with t2 and is usually written as ft1 gt2."
• "On the "Tools" menu in Microsoft Outlook, for example, "encrypt" is an option."
• "My Actiontec DSL router is set with WPA2 -- for some reason the printer insists that the password encrypt is TKIP when it is actually AES."