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Enigma machine
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English
Proper noun
- a small portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, most famously by Germany in WWII
- fig. something which decrypts or makes understandable something enigmatic (see quotation)
Quotations
- 2004: No one needed an Enigma machine to figure out why Jimmy Carter was recallinmg his days aboard a nuclear submarine — New Yorker, 9 - 16 August 2004, p.37
External links
- Wikipedia article on Enigma machine
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