Cypher is an alternative spelling for
cipher
In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is ''encipherment''. To encipher or encode i ...
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Cypher may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Cypher (French Group), a Goa trance music group
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Cypher (band)
Cypher is a three piece instrumental band from Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Music
Cypher have been variously classified as Post-rock, Space rock, Noise and Shoegaze. Although their music can contain elements of any of these catego ...
, an Australian instrumental band
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''Cypher'' (film), a 2002 film
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''Cypher'' (...And Oceans album)
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''Cypher'' (Spektr album)
* in
breakdancing, a circle of b-boys who take turns dancing in the center
* in
poetry slam, a circle of poets who take turns reciting poems
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freestyle rap, a circle of rappers who take turns freestyling or performing a freeverse
Characters
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Cypher (Marvel Comics)
Cypher (Douglas Aaron Ramsey) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appears usually in the X-Men family of books, in particular those featuring '' The New Mutants'', of which Cypher ...
(a.k.a. Doug Ramsey), a Marvel Comics character
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Cypher (DC Comics)
The Batman family enemies are a collection of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. These characters are depicted as adversaries of the superhero Batman and his allies.
Since Batman first appeared in ''Detectiv ...
(a.k.a. Avery Twombey), a DC Comics super-villain and adversary of Batman
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Cypher (Warhammer 40,000)
''Warhammer 40,000'' is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is the most popular miniature wargame in the world, and is particularly popular in the United Kingdom. The first edition of the rulebook was published in September 1987, ...
, a character in the ''Warhammer 40,000'' universe
* Richard Cypher (also known as Richard Rahl), the protagonist of ''
The Sword of Truth'' series
* Cypher, a Judas-like
character in the film ''The Matrix''
* The title character of ''
Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero'', a 1950s-era cartoon program
* ''Cypher/Kerry Turner'', a sidekick of the Christian superhero ''
Bibleman
''Bibleman'' is an American Christian-themed direct-to-video children's series created by Tony Salerno that ran from 1995 to 2010 to promote Christianity. The series centers around an evangelical superhero who fights evil, often by quoting scri ...
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* The sword-like weapon of
Strider Hiryu, a character from the ''Strider Hiryu'' manga and various related videogames
* A character in the ''Higher Institute of Villainous Education'' book series, first introduced in the second book ''
The Overlord Protocol''
* Cypher, the female main antagonist of the film ''
The Fate of the Furious''
People
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Jon Cypher (born 1932), American actor
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Julie Cypher (born 1964), American film director best known as the former partner of Melissa Etheridge
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Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky, Belarusian professional ''Quake'' player
Other uses
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Cypher (UAV), an unmanned aerial vehicle
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The Cypher (video game), release in 1998
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''Cypher'' (video game), released in 2012
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Cypher stent
Cypher is a brand of drug-eluting coronary stent from Cordis Corporation, a Cardinal Health company. During a balloon angioplasty, the stent is inserted into the artery to provide a "scaffold" to open the artery. An anti-rejection-type medicati ...
, a type of drug-eluting stent
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Cypher Query Language, a declarative query language for graph databases
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Royal cypher
See also
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Monogram
A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol. Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos. A series o ...
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Cipher (disambiguation)
A cipher is a method of encryption or decryption.
Cipher may also refer to:
Science and mathematics
* CIPHER (DOS command), an external filter command in some versions of MS-DOS 2.xx
* One of the names for the number 0 in English
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Cyphers
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