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Playfairite vs Playfair - What's the difference?

playfairite | playfair | Derived terms |

Playfairite is a derived term of playfair.


As nouns the difference between playfairite and playfair

is that playfairite is (mineralogy) a monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing antimony, lead, and sulfur while playfair is (cryptography) the , or an encryption using it.

As a proper noun playfair is

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playfairite

English

Noun

  • (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing antimony, lead, and sulfur.

    • References

    * Playfairite on Webmineral.com * Playfairite on mindat.org

    playfair

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (surname)

    • Derived terms

    * Playfair cipher * Playfairian * playfairite

    Noun

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  • (cryptography) the , or an encryption using it
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1932 , title = , first = Dorothy , last = Sayers , authorlink = Dorothy Sayers , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=uSGWFKOu5hsC&pg=PA336 , passage = Here's a cipher message. Probably Playfair . }}