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Caesar substitution






Caesar substitution   
noun
variants: or less commonly Caesar shift

Definition of Caesar substitution

cryptography
: the replacement of each letter in a text by the one at a certain constant distance in the alphabet, especially a normal alphabet — compare julius caesar cipher



First Known Use of Caesar substitution

1943, in the meaning defined above



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