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ciphering

verb
  1. To calculate.

    "I never learned much more than how to read and cipher."

  2. To write in code or cipher.

  3. Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.

noun
  1. A calculation or computation.

  2. A cipher (fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed).

Synonymscalculus, reckoning

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