codebook

      English

      Etymology

      code +‎ book.

      Noun

      codebook (plural codebooks)

      1. (cryptography) A book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code.
      2. (computer science) A lookup table.

      Translations

      cryptography: mapping between plaintext and code
      computing: lookup table — see lookup table

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      Last modified on 18 June 2013, at 19:09