Turingery

noun

Turingery

noun

Etymology From Turing + -ery, after its inventor Alan Turing.

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Computing, Cryptography, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A manual cryptanalysis technique used in breaking the Lorenz cipher during World War II, based on deducing the wheel settings of the machine that did the encryption.

Synonyms
Turingismus

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