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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

code-breaking

· code·-break·ing · IPA
01 n. A process of discovering the content of an encoded message or the nature of a code{5}. The method used may be surreptitious, or may use so…
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    A process of discovering the content of an encoded message or the nature of a code{5}. The method used may be surreptitious, or may use sophisticated mathematical and computational techniques to discover the code. See: code