monoalphabetic substitution
- monoalphabetic substitution
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a system of substitution that uses only one cipher alphabet in a cryptogram so that each plaintext letter is always represented by the same cipher. Cf.
polyalphabetic substitution.
[1935-40; MONO- + ALPHABETIC]
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