Read the dictionary definition of cypher. All definitions for this word.
1. a message written in a secret code
2. a secret method of writing
3. a person of no influence
4. a quantity of no importance
1. it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
2. reduced to nil all the work we had done
3. we racked up a pathetic goose egg
4. it was all for naught
5. I didn't hear zilch about it
5. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
6. make a mathematical calculation or computation
7. convert ordinary language into code
1. We should encode the message for security reasons
