decipherment

«decipherment» in Mova's school dictionary: working out the meaning of a code, secret message or old… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (decipherment — usually uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

Decipherment is working out the meaning of a code, secret message or old writing that is hard to read. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone (by Jean-François Champollion in 1822) and the code-breaking work at Bletchley Park are famous examples. In puzzles and olympiads, decipherment means solving a code or an unknown script step by step.

examples

• The decipherment of hieroglyphs took many years. tree →
• The Rosetta Stone helped with the decipherment of Egyptian writing. tree →
• The code-breakers worked on the decipherment of secret messages. tree →
• Some ancient scripts still wait for decipherment. tree →
• Our puzzle club practised decipherment of simple codes. tree →
• The decipherment of the old letter revealed a hidden treasure map. tree →

note

Verb: decipher (to work out). Similar: decoding, deciphering. It applies to codes and hard writing, not to ordinary reading.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «decipherment» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.