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ciphering
verb
To calculate.
"I never learned much more than how to read and cipher."
To write in code or cipher.
Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
noun
A calculation or computation.
A cipher (fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed).
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