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encrypt
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en·crypt  (n-krpt)
tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts
1. To put into code or cipher.
2. Computer Science To alter (a file, for example) using a secret code so as to be unintelligible to unauthorized parties.


en·cryption n.

encrypt [ɪnˈkrɪpt]
vb (tr)
1. (Electronics & Computer Science / Communications & Information) to put (a message) into code
2. (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) to put (computer data) into a coded form
3. (Communication Arts / Broadcasting) to distort (a television or other signal) so that it cannot be understood without the appropriate decryption equipment
[from en-1 + crypt, as in crypto-]
encrypted  adj
encryption  n

encrypt  (n-krpt)
To alter information using a code or mathematical algorithm so as to be unintelligible to unauthorized readers.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.encrypt - convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons"
encode - convert information into code; "encode pictures digitally"
Translations
encrypt [ɪnˈkrɪpt] VTcodificar
encrypt [ɪnˈkrɪpt] vt (= encode) [+ data, message] → crypter
encrypt
vt (Comput, Telec, TV) → verschlüsseln


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Lewis and Wilentz illuminate some of the novel's structuring and thematization of aspects of African cultural and religious thoughts, for instance: Its political encryptions of an "alternative reality" grounded in African cosmologies (Wilentz 128-30) and its positioning of Shadrack and Sula as both displaced Africans and mutually constitutive and ontologically connected water divinities (Lewis 92-93).
Acknowledging that someone will always find a way to work past encryptions, Valenti said, ``We're trying to make it so difficult to steal that most people will say, oh, the hell with it.
 
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