decipherment
1Decipherment — De*ci pher*ment, n. The act of deciphering. [1913 Webster] …
2decipherment — index definition, solution (answer) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3Decipherment — 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… …
4decipherment — decipher ► VERB 1) convert from code into normal language. 2) succeed in understanding (something hard to interpret). DERIVATIVES decipherable adjective decipherment noun …
5Decipherment of rongorongo — Tablet B Aruku kurenga, verso. One of four texts which provided the Jaussen list, the first attempt at decipherment. Made of Pacific rosewood, mid nineteenth century, Easter Island. (Collection of the SS.CC., Rome) There have been numerous… …
6Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs — Demotic script on a replica of the Rosetta Stone …
7Decipherment 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 …
8decipherment — noun see decipher …
9decipherment — See decipherable. * * * …
10decipherment — noun The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost …
