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1 English 1.1 Proper noun 1.1.1 Quotations 1.2 External links

English

Proper noun

1. a small portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, most famously by Germany in WWII
2. fig. something which decrypts or makes understandable something enigmatic (see quotation)

Quotations

• 2004: No one needed an Enigma machine to figure out why Jimmy Carter was recallinmg his days aboard a nuclear submarine — New Yorker, 9 - 16 August 2004, p.37

External links

• Wikipedia article on Enigma machine