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pass·word    Audio Help   [pas-wurd, pahs-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
2.a word or other string of characters, sometimes kept secret or confidential, that must be supplied by a user in order to gain full or partial access to a multiuser computer system or its data resources.
Compare countersign.


[Origin: 1810–20; pass + word]

1. watchword.
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pass·word    Audio Help   (pās'wûrd')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A secret word or phrase that one uses to gain admittance or access to information.
  2. Computer Science A sequence of characters that one must input to gain access to a file, application, or computer system. Also called passkey.

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password 
"word appointed as a sign to distinguish friend from foe," c.1817, from pass (v.) + word.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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password

noun
a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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ˈpassword noun
a secret word by which those who know it can recognize each other and be allowed to go past, enter etc
Example: He was not allowed into the army camp because he did not know the password.
Arabic: كَلِمَة السِّر
Chinese (Simplified): 口令
Chinese (Traditional): 口令
Czech: heslo
Danish: kodeord
Dutch: wachtwoord
Estonian: märgusõna
Finnish: tunnussana
French: mot de passe
German: die Losung
Greek: σύνθημα, κωδικός
Hungarian: jelszó
Icelandic: lykilorð
Indonesian: kata sandi
Italian: parola d'ordine*
Japanese: 合い言葉
Korean: 암호(말)
Latvian: parole
Lithuanian: slaptažodis
Norwegian: passord
Polish: hasło
Portuguese (Brazil): senha
Portuguese (Portugal): senha
Romanian: parolă
Russian: пароль
Slovak: heslo
Slovenian: geslo
Spanish: contraseña
Swedish: lösenord
Turkish: parola
See also: passable, passing, passer-by, in passing, let (something) pass, pass, pass (something or someone) off as, pass as/for, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass out, pass over, pass the buck, pass up

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password security
An arbitrary string of characters chosen by a user or system administrator and used to authenticate the user when he attempts to log on, in order to prevent unauthorised access to his account.
A favourite activity among unimaginative computer nerds and crackers is writing programs which attempt to discover passwords by using lists of commonly chosen passwords such as people's names (spelled forward or backward). It is recommended that to defeat such methods passwords use a mixture of upper and lower case letters or digits and avoid proper names and real words. If you have trouble remembering random strings of characters, make up an acronym like "ihGr8trmP" ("I have great trouble remembering my password").
(1994-10-27)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Password

Pass"word`\, n. A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. --Macaulay.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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