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  2. Secret handshake - Wikipedia

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    Football players David Silva and Nicolás Otamendi perform a secret handshake at the Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee; 2017. A secret handshake is a distinct form of handshake or greeting which indicates membership in or loyalty to a club, clique or subculture.

  3. Prosigns for Morse code - Wikipedia

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    The procedure signs below are compiled from the official specification for Morse Code, ITU-R M.1677, International Morse Code, [1] while others are defined the International Radio Regulations for Mobile Maritime Service, including ITU-R M.1170, [8] ITU-R M.1172, [4] and the Maritime International Code of Signals, [5] with a few details of their ...

  4. Ten-code - Wikipedia

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    California Penal Code sections were in use by the Los Angeles Police Department as early as the 1940s, and these Hundred Code numbers are still used today instead of the corresponding ten-code. Generally these are given as two sets of numbers [ citation needed ] —"One Eighty-Seven" or "Fifty-One Fifty"—with a few exceptions such as "459 ...

  5. Morse code abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Morse code abbreviations are not the same as prosigns.Morse abbreviations are composed of (normal) textual alpha-numeric character symbols with normal Morse code inter-character spacing; the character symbols in abbreviations, unlike the delineated character groups representing Morse code prosigns, are not "run together" or concatenated in the way most prosigns are formed.

  6. SOS - Wikipedia

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    SOS is a Morse code distress signal ( ), used internationally, originally established for maritime use.In formal notation SOS is written with an overscore line (SOS), to indicate that the Morse code equivalents for the individual letters of "SOS" are transmitted as an unbroken sequence of three dots / three dashes / three dots, with no spaces between the letters. [1]

  7. List of U.S. security clearance terms - Wikipedia

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    Security clearances can be issued by many United States of America government agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of State (DOS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Energy (DoE), the Department of Justice (DoJ), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

  8. Cryptography - Wikipedia

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    In colloquial use, the term "code" is often used to mean any method of encryption or concealment of meaning. However, in cryptography, code has a more specific meaning: the replacement of a unit of plaintext (i.e., a meaningful word or phrase) with a code word (for example, "wallaby" replaces "attack at dawn"). A cypher, in contrast, is a ...

  9. Secret decoder ring - Wikipedia

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    A secret decoder ring (or secret decoder) is a device that allows one to decode a simple substitution cipher—or to encrypt a message by working in the opposite direction. [ 1 ] As inexpensive toys, secret decoders have often been used as promotional items by retailers, as well as radio and television programs, from the 1930s through to the ...