cypher

nouns

a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

0, cipher, cypher, nought, zero

a quantity of no importance

"it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo

a person of no influence

cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity

a secret method of writing

cipher, cryptograph, cypher, secret code

a message written in a secret code

cipher, cypher

verbs

convert ordinary language into code

"We should encode the message for security reasons"

cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code

make a mathematical calculation or computation

calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out