The act or process of decoding something that is written in code or difficult to understand.
From decipher + -ment (noun-forming suffix). This formal noun developed to describe the intellectual process of working through encrypted or obscure texts systematically.
The decipherment of Linear B script in 1952 suddenly revealed that the ancient Greeks were writing about everyday things like chariot wheels and cattle—it proved a whole forgotten civilization's real life!
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