cryptex

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹɪptɛks/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A puzzle box solved with a passcode.
    — Sophie was not surprised. Most of Leonardo’s unbuilt inventions had never been studied or even named. The term cryptex possibly had been her grandfather’s creation, an apt title for this device that used the science of cryptology to protect information written on the contained scroll or codex.

词形变化

cryptices plural cryptexes plural

词源

Blend of cryptology + codex, coined in The Da Vinci Code (2003); see quotations.
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