Text that has been scrambled or encrypted using a cipher so that it looks like random gibberish unless you know the secret code to decode it.
Modern compound: 'cipher' (from Arabic 'şifr') + 'text' (from Latin 'textus,' past participle of 'texere,' to weave). Created in the 20th century as cryptography became a formal field.
When you encrypt a message, you're literally turning words into a new 'text'—that's why cryptographers call the scrambled version 'ciphertext' and the original 'plaintext,' treating encrypted language almost like a new language entirely!
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