polyalphabetic

polyalphabetic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English alphabetic
English polyalphabetic

    From poly- + alphabetic.

    Adjective

    polyalphabetic (not comparable)

    1. Describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.

    Derived terms

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