Enigma machine
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English
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[edit]- Rhymes: -iːn
Noun
[edit]Enigma machine (plural Enigma machines)
- (historical) A small portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, made famous by Germany in WWII.
- (figurative) Something which decrypts or makes understandable something enigmatic.
- 2004, New Yorker, 9 - 16 August 2004, page 37:
- No one needed an Enigma machine to figure out why Jimmy Carter was recalling his days aboard a nuclear submarine.
- 2004, New Yorker, 9 - 16 August 2004, page 37: