Definitions
1.nounA numeric character.
2.nounAny text character.
3.nounA combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram."a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc."
4.nounA method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning."The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out."
5.nounA cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
6.nounCiphertext; a message concealed via a cipher."The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out."
7.nounA grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:"The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros."
8.nounA fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
9.nounA hip-hop jam session.
10.nounThe path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
11.nounSomeone or something of no importance.
12.nounZero.
13.verbTo calculate."I never learned much more than how to read and cipher."
14.verbTo write in code or cipher.
15.verbOf an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
16.verbTo decipher.