decipherment

decipherment
The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.

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  • Decipherment — De*ci pher*ment, n. The act of deciphering. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • decipherment — index definition, solution (answer) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Decipherment — Decipher redirects here. For other uses, see Decipher (disambiguation). Decipherment is the analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost. It is closely related to… …   Wikipedia

  • decipherment — decipher ► VERB 1) convert from code into normal language. 2) succeed in understanding (something hard to interpret). DERIVATIVES decipherable adjective decipherment noun …   English terms dictionary

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  • Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs — Demotic script on a replica of the Rosetta Stone …   Wikipedia

  • Decipherment of hieroglyphic writing — Until recently, the decipherment of hieroglyphs was hampered because those attempting to decipher the hieroglyphs assigned emotional meanings to the actual symbols used. For example, some people believed that the hieroglyph for son , a goose, was …   Wikipedia

  • decipherment — noun see decipher …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • decipherment — See decipherable. * * * …   Universalium

  • decipherment — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Something that serves to explain or clarify: clarification, construction, elucidation, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposition, illumination, illustration, interpretation. Archaic: enucleation. See EXPLAIN …   English dictionary for students

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