Associations to the word «Cryptology»

Wiktionary

CRYPTOLOGY, noun. The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
CRYPTOLOGY, noun. Secret or enigmatical language.

Dictionary definition

CRYPTOLOGY, noun. The science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky