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noun:  (telecommunications, historical) A character code represented by two sets of six lit torches, used to send messages character by character, in a two point visual fire telegraph. The character code is generated by encoding characters in a grid, where each character generates two numbers, uniquely representing each character as a pair of numbers.
noun:  (cryptography) A grid used for fractionating plaintext characters so that they can be represented by a smaller set of symbols.

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