English Explanatory Dictionary

Banburismus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cryptologic process using an early form of Bayesian networks to infer information about the settings of the Enigma machine.

Word forms

Banburismus

Etymology

From Banbury, a type of codebreaking sheet named for being printed in the town of that name, + German -ismus (“-ism”); coined by Alan Turing, who invented the process in 1940.

Related words

Banburist
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