Enigma machine
Noun

Enigma machine

  1. (historical) A small portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, made famous by Germany in WWII.
  2. (figurative) Something which decrypts or makes understandable something enigmatic.



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