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en⋅crypt

[en-kript]
–verb (used with object)
to encipher or encode.

Origin:
1940–45; en- 1 + -crypt (abstracted from cryptic, cryptography, etc.), modeled on encode


en⋅cryp⋅tion, en⋅cryp⋅ta⋅tion, noun
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en·crypt   (ěn-krĭpt)   
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-1 + (de)crypt.]
en·cryp'tion n.
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