decipherment
noun
- process of uncovering the meaning of an obscured (either through loss of context or deliberately) text or more widely the medium in which a text exists, through linguistic, statistical, or other cryptographic means
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English decipher Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English decipherment From decipher + -ment.
- The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.
- Decryption.