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Decipherment

noun
1.
The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text.  Synonyms: decoding, decryption.






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"Decipherment" Quotes from Famous Books



... ideographic, while others were simple abbreviated pictorial representations. In a subsequent paper[205-2] I expressed substantially the same opinion, and gave as my belief that one reason why attempts at decipherment have failed of success is a misconception of the peculiar character of the writing, which peculiarity is found in the fact that, as it exists in the codices and inscriptions, it is in a transition stage from the purely ideographic to the phonetic. I stated also my belief that ...
— Day Symbols of the Maya Year • Cyrus Thomas

... that the same hieroglyphic or cuneiform text is rendered differently by different scholars; nay, that the same scholar proposes a new rendering not many years after his first attempt at a translation has been published. And what applies to the decipherment of inscriptions applies with equal force to the translation of ancient texts. A translation of the hymns of the Veda, or of the Zend-Avesta, and, we may add, of the Old Testament too, requires exactly the same process as the deciphering of an inscription. The only safe way of finding ...
— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller



Words linked to "Decipherment" :   decipher, cryptography, decompression, steganography, secret writing, coding



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