plaintext

[ pleyn-tekst ]
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noun
  1. the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.

Origin of plaintext

1
First recorded in 1915–20; plain1 + text
  • Also called clear text.

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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 Army
  • It was changed to plain text to match the format of the rest of the text.

    Uncle Sam | Albert Mathews
  • The 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

plain text

noun
  1. telecomm a message set in a directly readable form rather than in coded groups

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