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cryptography vs encoding

encoding vs cryptography

cryptography and encoding both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
cryptography Yes No No No
encoding Yes No No No
As nouns, encoding is a hyponym of cryptography; that is, encoding is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cryptography:
  • cryptography: act of writing in code or cipher
  • encoding: the activity of converting data or information into code
Other hyponyms of cryptography include encryption, recoding, decipherment, decoding, decryption.
cryptography (noun) encoding (noun)
act of writing in code or cipher the activity of converting data or information into code
the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
Difference between cryptography and encoding

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