plaintext
the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
Origin of plaintext
1- Also called clear text.
- Compare cryptography.
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How to use plaintext in a sentence
There are PDF formats where you can turn the pages and plain-text formats where you can search the text.
If ye think that they should all have been criminal, only because they all accused him, the plain text witnesses the contrary.
It will always precede and follow a cipher message or such part of a plain text message as is enciphered.
Visual Signaling | Signal Corps United States ArmyIt was changed to plain text to match the format of the rest of the text.
Uncle Sam | Albert MathewsThe page numbers have been updated for the plain text version of this book.
Insect Adventures | J. Henri Fabre
Accented letters and ligatures have been removed in the plain text version.
Adrift in New York | Horatio Alger
British Dictionary definitions for plain text
telecomm a message set in a directly readable form rather than in coded groups
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