STEGANOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steganography mean? 

• STEGANOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun STEGANOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. act of writing in code or cipher

  Familiarity information: STEGANOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEGANOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of writing in code or cipher

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

coding; cryptography; secret writing; steganography

Hypernyms ("steganography" is a kind of...):

committal to writing; writing (the activity of putting something in written form)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steganography"):

encoding; encryption (the activity of converting data or information into code)

recoding (converting from one code to another)

decipherment; decoding; decryption (the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text)