1. - see cipher
1. a message written in a secret code
Synonym: cipher
2. a secret method of writing
Synonym: ciphercryptographsecret code
3. a person of no influence
Synonym: ciphernobodynonentity
4. a quantity of no importance
e.g. it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
reduced to nil all the work we had done
we racked up a pathetic goose egg
it was all for naught
I didn't hear zilch about it
Synonym: nothingnilnixnadanullaughtciphergoose eggnaughtzerozilchzipzippo
5. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number