1880, from crypto- + gram "word, letter." A modern word coined in English; though the elements are Greek, the ancient Greeks would find it barbarous.

n. Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.

noun. A kind of issue occasionally utilized in studies of resolving problems, wherein a brief joke or quote is encrypted so that alphabetic letters are arbitrarily rendered to supplement each other. T [..]

noun Definition: writing or a picture that has a hidden or coded meaning Example Sentence: "Class, this is a cryptogram," said the teacher pointing to the strange pictures on the board.

A numeric value that is the result of data elements entered into an algorithm and then encrypted. Commonly used to validate data integrity.

(n) a piece of writing in code or cipher

a descriptive code summarizing some of the main properties of a virus. Cryptograms aid identification and add precision to the vernacular names of viruses. They also show how much is known about a giv [..]