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Word: nonce (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • British|slang A stupid or worthless person.
  • British|slang|pejorative A sex offender, ''especially'' of children; a paedophile.
  • cryptography A datum constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
  • cryptography In a security engineering context, a value used only once.
  • lexicography A nonce word.
  • The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in ''for the nonce'').

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