nonce
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
nonce (plural nonces)
- The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
- That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXX:
- [...] Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, / After a life spent training for the sight!
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, chapter 6:
- 'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.
- (lexicography) A nonce word.
- I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
- (cryptography) A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
- 1999, Network Working Group,
RFC 2617 – HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication, The Internet Society, page 22:- The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce.
- 1999, Network Working Group,
- German: einmalig, Einmal-
- Russian: да́нный слу́чай
nonce (not comparable)
- One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once.
nonce (plural nonces)
- (British, slang, pejorative, prisons) A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children.
- That bloke who lives at number 53 is a nonce!
- (British, slang) A stupid or worthless person.
- Shut it, ya nonce!
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