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banburismus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ban-buris-mus
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A cryptologic process using an early form of Bayesian networks to infer information about the settings of the Enigma machine.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Banbury, a type of codebreaking sheet named for being printed in the town of that name, + German -ismus (“-ism”); coined by Alan Turing, who invented the process in 1940.

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

Banburist

Questions

What does banburismus mean?
A cryptologic process using an early form of Bayesian networks to infer information about the settings of the Enigma machine.
Where does banburismus come from?
From Banbury, a type of codebreaking sheet named for being printed in the town of that name, + German -ismus (“-ism”); coined by Alan Turing, who invented the process in 1940.

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